Viewing Rails log files

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Hi, Presently, to view the log files I simply open it in my text editor, but after sometime when the size of the log files crosses some megabytes, my text editor starts to hang. A solution may be to always truncate the log file length to zero bytes after a time period. This method surely works for development log files but is not suitable for production log files, where I don't want to truncate the log files to zero very often. I wanted to ask, is there any plugin or gem which let me see the log files directly from my browser? (with authentication and all)

At last. Is it a "good idea" and is there any plugin/gem which dumps the log to database instead of file?

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Typically, the approach is to have some sort of schedule job (or use logrotate) to rotate your log files each day - you keep an archive of past days, but your current production.log will only have 24 hours or less. See http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/DeploymentTips. Of course if you have a busy site that might not solve your problem. So you will be better using commands like tail and grep to search your log.

I haven't come across anything storing your log in the database.

HTH, Nicholas