Setting up logrotate for production server

This article will demonstrate how to use logrotate to maintain log files of rails.

• Switch to root

sudo su -l

• Define a file to maintain log files of rails

Assuming your app name is myflix, create /etc/logrotate.d/rails with following content:

/etc/logrotate.d/rails:

/home/deployer/apps/myflix/current/log/*.log {
  daily
  missingok
  rotate 7
  compress
  delaycompress
  notifempty
  copytruncate
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
    service sidekiq restart
    service unicorn restart
  endscript
}

You may execute the command below for testing

logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf