I really like Pow, but I think I really miss an easy way to simply display the development log somehow and also interact with a binding.pry console. Isn't there an easy way to do this? I know about pry-remote, but this just is an unnecessary additional step.
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Hauleth
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how are you doing thay? – Малъ Скрылевъ Dec 24 '13 at 12:44
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1Is there a reason you can't simply `tail -f log/development.log`? That works for me with Pow (I don't use pry). Or do you want to see the development log while using pry? – Philip Hallstrom Dec 24 '13 at 17:34
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The solution I use is to tail the pow logs. Tailing log/development.log is close, but does not get everything that would normally go to standard out (i.e. what you would see if you ran rails server).
On a Mac, the pow logs live in:
~/Library/Logs/Pow/apps/
To help remember this, I just add an alias:
alias kaput="tail -f ~/Library/Logs/Pow/apps/*"
This will tail the logs of all the apps together, which I like. But if you want a specific log just use the name of the app instead of the wildcard.
It's called kaput because it A) shows the things that are putsd and B) I have a kapow command that restarts pow.
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This is a nice solution. However, when having `rails s`, the output is colored. Is something like this supported with `tail`? – Joshua Muheim Jan 05 '14 at 18:55
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1@JoshuaMuheim the colors are added when rails writes the output, since it is not attached to a terminal it strips the color codes. If you want to get colors in the log file it would be a matter of forcing color to be on. – csexton Jan 05 '14 at 23:32
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Thank you. Let's see whether there arrive more answers. If not, I will accept your answer (though it's not 100% what I hoped for). – Joshua Muheim Jan 06 '14 at 07:37
