Question

Something in Rails (ActiveRecord::Base.logger ?) puts all executed SQL into log/development.log.

I have a rails app, whose data is populated by several rake tasks. Often in development, I want to run the web app, and run several of these rake tasks simultaneously (they are long running tasks that talk to other systems and create data in a local database).

Annoyingly, they all log to the same file at the same time.

How/where should I change this? Can I do it from the command line? Where (if in a rake file) should I do it? Or should I create new environments for each rake task?

Is there documentation i should have read to answer this, where is it?

Thanks a bunch.

Answer 1

My current solution is

dec "update statistics"
task :update_stats => :environment do

     root_path = Rails.configuration.root_path
     env = Rails.configuration.environment
     ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(File.join(root_path, "log", "#{env}-stats.log"))
     #code ...

end

It feels a bit hacky, but maybe that’s just the way to do it.