nginx ignoring error_log?

app.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler/setup'
require 'sinatra'

#require 'logger'



get '/' do
  # log = File.open('/tmp/registry.log', 'a')
  
  #STDERR.reopen(log)
  #STDOUT.reopen(log)
  #logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
  #logger.info('LOGGER logger.info')
    #Rails.logger.error("Rails.logger.error")
  #env['rack.error'].write("env['rack.errors']\n")
  $stderr.puts "$STDERR"
  $stdout.puts "$STDOUT"
  STDERR.puts "STDERR"
  STDOUT.puts "STDOUT"
  puts "puts"
  'hello!'
end

daemons.conf

server {
  listen       82;
  location / { 
    passenger_enabled on;
    root  /Users/paulm/public;
    access_log  logs/daemons-access.log  main;
    error_log  /tmp/daemons-error.log;
  }
}

# more like this

nginx.conf

#user  nobody; 
worker_processes  1;
    
#error_log  logs/error.log;
    
#error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
#error_log  logs/error.log  info;

#pid        logs/nginx.pid;

  
events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}   
    
    
http {
    passenger_root /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.11;
    passenger_ruby /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby;

    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    
    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
  
    #access_log  logs/access.log  main;
    access_log  logs/access.log  main;

    #sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;
    
    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    
    #gzip  on;

    include /opt/nginx/conf/sites/*.conf;

    #rack_env staging;
}