found the problem. you now need to set it via config.log_level
https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/railties/lib/rails/application/bootstrap.rb
Question
when I upgraded to Rails 4 my log level is always at DEBUG, even though I have config.logger.level = Logger::WARN
in my production.rb
It was working fine previously on Rails 3.2, any ideas where might have changed?
La solution
found the problem. you now need to set it via config.log_level
https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/railties/lib/rails/application/bootstrap.rb