# How to debug log\_level issue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 31, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-debug-log-level-issue/110905 "2007-07-31T23:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/91b2a8/32.png) [@Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vish_K)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-debug-log-level-issue/110905/1 "2007-07-31T23:28:46Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/91b2a8/32.png) [@Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vish_K)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-debug-log-level-issue/110905/2 "2007-08-01T07:10:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/91b2a8/32.png) [@Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vish_K)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 8:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-debug-log-level-issue/110905/3 "2007-08-01T08:29:30Z")
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](http://dev.rubyonrails.org) for more information. – Cheers, - Jacob A. ---
**Author:** ![Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/91b2a8/32.png) [@Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vish_K)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-debug-log-level-issue/110905/4 "2007-08-01T19:39:01Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/91b2a8/32.png) [@Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vish_K)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-debug-log-level-issue/110905/5 "2007-08-01T21:36:20Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/91b2a8/32.png) [@Vish\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vish_K)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-debug-log-level-issue/110905/6 "2007-08-01T21:45:21Z")
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 😉 – Cheers, - Jacob A.