# Rails Logger

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-logger/154321>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 27, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-logger/154321 "2008-11-27T17:35:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mariek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@mariek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mariek)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-logger/154321/1 "2008-11-27T17:35:07Z")

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how to make default rails logger accessible in my custom modules,  
because as I see now its available only for ActiveRecord and some  
other Rails modules.

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**Author:** ![mariek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@mariek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mariek)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-logger/154321/2 "2008-11-27T17:55:38Z")

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not sure if that works, but in many cases  
where logger.info doesn’t work (like in rspec specs)  
you can use:  
RAILS\_DEFAULT\_LOGGER.info “my text”

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**Author:** ![mariek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@mariek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mariek)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-logger/154321/3 "2008-11-27T17:56:13Z")

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I just dealt with the same problem:

from [Mike Naberezny – Ruby](http://mikenaberezny.com/category/ruby/#rails-logger:)  
"From outside a controller or model, you can pass the logger instance  
or access it with the constant RAILS\_DEFAULT\_LOGGER. "

also see:  
[http://www.boowebb.com/2008/01/09/writing-to-the-log-in-rails](http://www.boowebb.com/2008/01/09/writing-to-the-log-in-rails)

Yoram

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**Author:** ![mariek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@mariek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mariek)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 10:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-logger/154321/4 "2008-11-28T10:35:07Z")

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thanks a lot guys