From: Will Sargent <will.sargent@...>
Date: 2008-02-21T09:10:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Logging 0.7.0 (Quixotic Starfish)

On Feb 13, 7:58 am, Tim Pease <tim.pe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008, at 9:22 PM, James Gray wrote:
>
> > On Feb 12, 2008, at 7:21 PM,TimPeasewrote:
>
> >> 1) a rolling file appender than can handle multiple processes logging
> >>  to the same file
>
> > Forgive my being too lazy to look to night, but what does this
> > mean?  Would this feature make it possible to make something like
> > Rails logging multiprocess safe?
>
> That is correct. Multiple Rails processes (i.e. mongrel clusters) can
> now safely log to the same file, have the file roll, and all the
> processes will use the newer log file.
>
> You can also use the Syslog appender in Logging and dump to the syslog
> service. This is good for collecting logs from multiple machines.

What's the best way to configure Rails to use Logging?  Is there any
documentation for setting it up?

I looked at http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoConfigureLogging
but it only talks about log4r.

Will.