Comment by bougyman

We do a lot of ruby apps, avoiding rails as much as possible, but Redmine is one we use often. In all of our apps we use the Runit process supervisor to launch them, with svlogd logging each individual process. It has proven more than up to the task of keeping up with the busiest of our logging needs, and has many advanced features simply configured that other loggers lack. Worth checking out as an alternative, as you don't have to replace your syslogger to use it. See http://rubyists.github.com/2011/05/02/runit-for-ruby-and-eve... for more info