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This might be (read: probably is) a dumb question, but here goes...
Is there a simple, preferably non third-party, way to display Rails logs in the browser? It gets kind of old opening a log file, then closing it and re-opening it on the next error. It would be superfantastic to just to go domain.tld/logs, which would require user authentication, of course.
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In a Rails app, logs are stored under the /log folder. In development mode, the development. log file is used & you see log output on the terminal you're running rails server on.
By default it puts these log files in the log/ directory of your project. So if you open up that folder you'll see a development.
Most log files are located in the /var/log/ directory. Some applications such as httpd and samba have a directory within /var/log/ for their log files. You may notice multiple files in the log file directory with numbers after them. These are created when the log files are rotated.
For reference, there is a very simple way to do this. However, you would want to protect this page with some sort of authentication/authorization.
Controller:
lines = params[:lines]
if Rails.env == "production"
@logs = `tail -n #{lines} log/production.log`
else
@logs = `tail -n #{lines} log/development.log`
end
Log File View:
<pre><%= @logs %></pre>
View to display link:
<%= link_to "log file", log_path(lines: 100) %>
Routes:
get 'logs/:lines' => "pages#log", as: "log"
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