title: Rails server console output very noisy, can it be turned off?
body: <p>On some of my rails application pages I am seeing reams and reams of information echoed out to the console, messages that I am not interested in such as http messages:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  Started GET "/assets/jquery_ui/jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.css?body=1" for 10.0.2.2 at       2012-03-02 15:19:59 +0000
    Served asset /jquery_ui/jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.css - 304 Not Modified (0ms)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>There is also lots of SQL statements that I don't normally care about.</p>
  
  <p>Sure, I can see how sometimes this level of information would be helpful sometimes. But I would like to run my server normally without this noise.</p>
  
  <p>The reason for this is because if I am debugging an issue, I like to explicitly log messages to the console, run the request and observe the output. However finding my own logs in amongst this noise is time consuming!</p>
  
  <p>Currently to work around this I am marking my messages with a magic string and greping the output to the console...</p>
  
  <p>Can anybody suggest a nicer way to reduce the console output to just my own messages?</p>
  
  <p>I am on rails 3.1.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any suggestions.</p>