Idle Hacking

Setting up SyslogLogger is a really good idea.

sudo gem install SyslogLogger

# edit /etc/rsyslog.conf

!logtarget
*.* <tab><tab> /var/log/logtarget/production.log

# edit config/environments/production.rb

config.logger = RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER = SyslogLogger.new('logtarget')

References:

• syslog overview


• Logging rails to syslog with sysloglogger


• SyslogLogger