Rails Error: Unable to access log file. Please ensure that /home.../log/development.log exists and is chmod 0666

Question

Im trying to migrate a db2 database to Ruby on Rails, but just when I run rails g scaffold, I get this:

Rails Error: Unable to access log file. Please ensure that /home/.../log/development.log exists and is chmod 0666. The log level has been raised to WARN and the output directed to STDERR until the problem is fixed.

I have checked and my development.log does not exist! I'm not sure why, since I followed every step during the installation, but still my file doesn't exist. How can I create it? I have already tried uninstalling and installing Rails again, but the problem remains.

Answer 1

Maybe just do what it asks you to do?:

$ touch the_required_path/development.log
$ chmod 0666  the_required_path/development.log

Answer 2

I've always had success with the the log file permissions as 644. When this has happened to me, more than once I might add, it has always been answered by the question linked below. Since this is the first answer in Google for the query I use, I'm linking to the answer that I really want.

Rails: Unable to access log file