How to get Rails.logger printing to the console/stdout when running rspec?

Question

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/s         


        

Answer 1

A solution that I like, because it keeps rspec output separate from actual rails log output, is to do the following:

• Open a second terminal window or tab, and arrange it so that you can see both the main terminal you're running rspec on as well as the new one.
• Run a tail command in the second window so you see the rails log in the test environment. By default this can be like $ tail -f $RAILS_APP_DIR/logs/test.log or tail -f $RAILS_APP_DIR\logs\test.log for Window users
• Run your rspec suites

If you are running a multi-pane terminal like iTerm, this becomes even more fun and you have rspec and the test.log output side by side.