How to debug log_level issue?

I’m running Rails 1.2.3 with mongrel and Ruby 1.8.6 on Windows.

I change the log_level in environment.rb from :debug to :warn
(or :error) but still see gobs of output in the development.log file.
The log_level setting seems to have no effect for me. I also tried
putting in config.log_level = :warn in the environments/development.rb
file to no avail.

I did restart the server each time after making and saving the edits
to the file.

More than discovering a fix to my problem, I’d greatly appreciate any
pointers as to how to go about debugging this issue.

Thanks
Vish

Okay it looks like RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER is set so the log_level
settings in the config files are ignored. Can’t seem to find who may
be setting the RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER. Will appreciate any pointers.

Vish K wrote:

putting in config.log_level = :warn in the environments/development.rb
file to no avail.

I did restart the server each time after making and saving the edits
to the file.

More than discovering a fix to my problem, I’d greatly appreciate any
pointers as to how to go about debugging this issue.

Thanks
Vish

I believe there’s a bug in script/server when used with Mongrel related
to this issue. Try searching the bugtracker at dev.rubyonrails.org for
more information.


Cheers,

  • Jacob A.

Jacob,

You’re right about the bug. I had to put this at the bottom of my
environment.rb to get what I wanted.

RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.level = Logger::WARN

Hope this helps someone else.

Thanks
Vish

It seems that the offending line (that causes the logging settings in
the config files to be skipped) is

Rails::Initializer.run(:initialize_logger)

in rails-1.2.3/lib/commands/servers/mongrel.rb. This is line #50 for
me. Due to this the RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER is set and you have to put a
setting like this in the config file:

RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.level = Logger::WARN

Vish K wrote:

Thanks
Vish

I seem to recall that you might be able to dodge the issue by using
“mongrel_rails start” instead of script/server. My memory has been known
to be corrupted though :wink:


Cheers,

  • Jacob A.