How to disable logging of asset pipeline (sprockets) messages in Rails 3.1?

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Question

Sprockets tends to be quite verbose in the (dev) log by default under Rails 3.1 (RC1):

Started GET "/assets/application.css" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-06-10 17:30:45 -0400
Compiled app/assets/stylesheets/application.css.scss  (5ms)  (pid 6303)


Started GET "/assets/application.js" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-06-10 17:30:45 -0400
Compiled app/assets/stylesheets/default.css.scss  (15ms)  (pid 6303)

...
Started GET "/assets/default/header_bg.gif" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-06-10 17:30:45 -0400
Served asset /default/header_logo.gif - 304 Not Modified  (7ms)  (pid 6303)
Served asset /default/header_bg.gif - 304 Not Modified  (0ms)  (pid 6246)
Served asset /default/footer_bg.gif - 304 Not Modified  (49ms)  (pid 6236)
...

I'd like to either reduce the level of verbosity or disable it altogether. I'm assuming there is a clean way to disable or reduce the verbosity of the logging by adding a config line in either environment.rb or development.rb similar to config.active_record.logger = nil which silences ActiveRecord SQL statements.

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Solution

Place the following code in config/initializers/quiet_assets.rb

if Rails.env.development?
  Rails.application.assets.try(:logger=, Logger.new('/dev/null'))
  Rails::Rack::Logger.class_eval do
    def call_with_quiet_assets(env)
      previous_level = Rails.logger.level
      Rails.logger.level = Logger::ERROR if env['PATH_INFO'] =~ %r{^/assets/}
      call_without_quiet_assets(env)
    ensure
      Rails.logger.level = previous_level
    end
    alias_method_chain :call, :quiet_assets
  end
end

Updated: now works for Rails 3.2 too (previous attempt fixes before_dispatch now we're going for the root rack call instead)

Update: A proper Rack middleware solution (instead of fragile alias_method_chain) from @macournoyer https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/2639#issuecomment-6591735

OTHER TIPS

Take a look at https://github.com/evrone/quiet_assets and just include it into your Gemfile

For lazy: gem 'quiet_assets', group: :development

For Rails 3.2, add config.assets.logger = false to your development environment configuration file, typically found at config/environments/development.rb . See #4512

Two things is enough:
1. config.assets.debug = false in config/enviroments/development.rb
2. rake assets:precompile. See comment by @oma below; this is not needed

Thats all!

Eventually, it will be config.assets.logger = nil but that part is currently stubbed on master (not done yet)

I know it's an ugly and temporary solution but i use this :

tail -f log/development.log | grep -vE 'asset'

Many people are confused about the use of config.assets.logger = false. Here is what it does and what it doesn't do.

According the source documentation:

Setting config.assets.logger to false will turn off served assets logging.

However this probably is not what you think it is. It only disables sprocket 'serving' logs, not Rails actionpack request logs. The Rails maintainer explains this clearly here: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/4569#issuecomment-3594500

Taking example from the link, logs like this are disabled:

Served asset /jquery.isotope.js - 304 Not Modified (0ms)

But logs like this are not

Started GET "/assets/jquery.isotope.js?body=1" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-01-20 23:16:46 -0500

config.assets.quiet = true

This is the latest way to go.

in development.rb in config/environments you'll find the line config.assets.debug = true. Switch that to false and most of the asset load output will be gone. On my system only the two requests for application.css and .js remain.

Rails.application.assets.logger = Logger.new(RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /(win|w)32$/ ? "NUL" : "/dev/null")
Rails::Rack::Logger.class_eval do
  def call_with_quiet_assets(env)
    previous_level = Rails.logger.level
    Rails.logger.level = Logger::ERROR if env['PATH_INFO'].index("/assets/") == 0
    call_without_quiet_assets(env).tap do
      Rails.logger.level = previous_level
    end
  end
  alias_method_chain :call, :quiet_assets
end

it's the same code @choonkeat added. I just included to work under windows as well.

In config/environments/development.rb please add:

config.assets.debug = false

config.assets.logger = false

This will help toward your problem.

Lograge for the win- It kills Rails' annoying logger defaults out of the box (e.g. logging assets, logging partial rendering), and is customizable if you want to add/remove specific items.

The below mentioned link solution helps:

https://github.com/evrone/quiet_assets

Also as below it's working fine for me

3.1 (only) (3.2 breaks before_dipatch)

app\config\initializers\quiet_assets.rb

Rails.application.assets.logger = Logger.new('/dev/null')
Rails::Rack::Logger.class_eval do
  def before_dispatch_with_quiet_assets(env)
    before_dispatch_without_quiet_assets(env) unless env['PATH_INFO'].index("/assets/") == 0
  end
  alias_method_chain :before_dispatch, :quiet_assets
end
3.2 Rails - Rack root tap approach
app\config\initializers\quiet_assets.rb

Rails.application.assets.logger = Logger.new('/dev/null') 
Rails::Rack::Logger.class_eval do 
  def call_with_quiet_assets(env)
    previous_level = Rails.logger.level
    Rails.logger.level = Logger::ERROR if env['PATH_INFO'].index("/assets/") == 0 
    call_without_quiet_assets(env).tap do
      Rails.logger.level = previous_level
    end 
  end 
  alias_method_chain :call, :quiet_assets 
end

In config/environments add config.log_level = :error to the .rb files you want to change. This will change the log settings to error only. I hope this helped!

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