# Changing where ActiveRecord logs to in the console

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/changing-where-activerecord-logs-to-in-the-console/186174>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 1, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/changing-where-activerecord-logs-to-in-the-console/186174 "2010-04-01T16:49:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/changing-where-activerecord-logs-to-in-the-console/186174/1 "2010-04-01T16:49:35Z")

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G’day folks. In the Rails console, if you configure ActiveRecord’s  
logger to output to STDOUT, like this:

ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new STDOUT

how do you switch it back to writing to a file? I tried the 2 lines  
below separately, but AR still logs to STDOUT afterwards:

ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new  
“#{RAILS\_ROOT}/log/#{RAILS\_ENV}.log”

ActiveRecord::Base.logger = ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger.new  
“#{RAILS\_ROOT}/log/#{RAILS\_ENV}.log”

Here’s a quick summary of what I’ve found:  
[http://pastie.org/898868](http://pastie.org/898868)

Any ideas? Thanks,  
Nick