It will overwrite your file. Perhaps "a" rather than "w" would append.
I also don't think it's a tunable filesystem issue... --Michael On Jan 31, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Paul wrote: > Hi all, > > Since moving to Rails 3.2.1, I haven't been able to figure out how to > flush the log file in production. I found this release note > (https://gist.github.com/1472145), which I don't understand: > > ------------------------- > ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger#auto_flushing is deprecated. Either set > the sync level on the underlying file handle like this: > > f = File.open('foo.log', 'w') > f.sync = true > ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger.new f > > Or tune your filesystem. The FS cache is now what controls flushing. > ------------------------- > > First, it seems to me that the above code would erase my existing > production.log file. I definitely don't want that. > > Second, where and when would I run this? Is this something that would > be put in an initializer some place? > > And, perhaps I don't understand the underlying system, but shouldn't I > be setting config.logger to the return value of that, so the third > line would be: > > config.logger = ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger.new f > > ------------------------- > What I'm really trying to do is have a way to get the production log > to show the latest information. At the moment, it takes a long time to > write. In development mode it works just fine. > > (I'm on CentOS 5.5, Ruby 1.9.3, Rails 3.2.1) > > Thanks! > Paul > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
