Same as title: How to get Rails.logger
printing to the console/stdout when running rspec? Eg.
Rails.logger.info "I WANT this to go to console/stdout when rspec is running"
puts "Like how the puts function works"
I still want Rails.logger
to go to log/test.log
too.
For Rails 4.x the log level is configured a bit different than in Rails 3.x
Add this to config/environment/test.rb
# Enable stdout logger
config.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
# Set log level
config.log_level = :ERROR
The logger level is set on the logger instance from config.log_level
at: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/v4.2.4/railties/lib/rails/application/bootstrap.rb#L70
Environment variable
As a bonus, you can allow overwriting the log level using an environment variable with a default value like so:
# default :ERROR
config.log_level = ENV.fetch("LOG_LEVEL", "ERROR")
And then running tests from shell:
# Log level :INFO (the value is uppercased in bootstrap.rb)
$ LOG_LEVEL=info rake test
# Log level :ERROR
$ rake test
For Rails 4, see this answer.
For Rails 3.x, configure a logger in config/environments/test.rb
:
config.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
config.logger.level = Logger::ERROR
This will interleave any errors that are logged during testing to STDOUT. You may wish to route the output to STDERR or use a different log level instead.
Sending these messages to both the console and a log file requires something more robust than Ruby's built-in Logger class. The logging gem will do what you want. Add it to your Gemfile
, then set up two appenders in config/environments/test.rb
:
logger = Logging.logger['test']
logger.add_appenders(
Logging.appenders.stdout,
Logging.appenders.file('example.log')
)
logger.level = :info
config.logger = logger
Tail the log as a background job (&) and it will interleave with rspec output.
tail -f log/test.log &
bundle exec rspec
When you're done with the log, bring it back into the foreground with fg
and exit the tail
with ctrl-c as usual.
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