Silence logging altogether for certain actions?

Hi, I am looking for a way to silence logging altogether for certain actions. Our app talks to other servers and session components, and our logs get filled up with this nonsense, even in Production mode. I want to completely silence all the automatic logging by Rails of the basic request parts: method, params, etc.

I've seen logger.silence, but that doesn't appear to get rid of the basic request chatter. Any ideas?

Processing ServersController#register to xml (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-04-15 20:52:17) [POST]   Parameters: {"server"=>{"uname_node_name"=>"domU", "server_type"=>"FLS", "management_port"=>"11054", "service_address"=>"1.2.3.4", "uname_version"=>"#2 SMP Tue Feb 19 10:51:53 EST 2008", "service_port"=>"10054", "management_address"=>"1.2.3.4", "uname_sysname"=>"Linux", "max_clients"=>"2000", "current_clients"=>"2", "instance_uuid"=>"5b7a3804", "server_version"=>"2.1.1/edge (r 2009-04-01 11:13:21) [i686-linux]", "uname_domain_name"=>"(none)", "uname_release"=>"2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.0", "uname_machine"=>"i686"}, "server_stats"=>{"cpu_sys"=>"0.000000", "cpu_nice"=>"0.000000", "cpu_idle"=>"0.000000", "cpu_user"=>"0.000000"}} Rendering servers/register Completed in 79ms (View: 1, DB: 4) | 200 OK [https:// ec2.compute-1.amazonaws.com/servers/register.xml]

Processing SessionsController#ping to xml (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-04-15 20:52:39) [POST] Completed in 16ms (View: 0, DB: 2) | 200 OK [https:// ec2.compute-1.amazonaws.com/session/ping.xml]

Processing SessionsController#ping to xml (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-04-15 20:52:41) [POST] Completed in 6ms (View: 0, DB: 2) | 200 OK [https:// ec2.compute-1.amazonaws.com/session/ping.xml]

Processing ServersController#register to xml (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-04-15 20:52:47) [POST]   Parameters: {"server"=>{"uname_node_name"=>"domU", "server_type"=>"FLS", "management_port"=>"11054", "service_address"=>"1.2.3.4", "uname_version"=>"#2 SMP Tue Feb 19 10:51:53 EST 2008", "service_port"=>"10054", "management_address"=>"1.2.3.4", "uname_sysname"=>"Linux", "max_clients"=>"2000", "current_clients"=>"2", "instance_uuid"=>"5b7a3804", "server_version"=>"2.1.1/edge (r 2009-04-01 11:13:21) [i686-linux]", "uname_domain_name"=>"(none)", "uname_release"=>"2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.0", "uname_machine"=>"i686"}, "server_stats"=>{"cpu_sys"=>"0.000000", "cpu_nice"=>"0.000000", "cpu_idle"=>"0.000000", "cpu_user"=>"0.000000"}} Rendering servers/register Completed in 38ms (View: 1, DB: 24) | 200 OK [https:// ec2.compute-1.amazonaws.com/servers/register.xml]

Any ideas?

(re-posted) One way that might meet your needs is to just up the log level temporarily:

  ...   bak_log_level = logger.level   begin     logger.level = Logger::ERROR # or some other uppper log level ...     # stuff you want to perform but restrict logging ...     ...   rescue     ...   ensure     logger.level = bak_log_level   end   ...

See http://guides.rubyonrails.org/debugging_rails_applications.html#log-l

Jeff