# Development log on command prompt

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-log-on-command-prompt/132408>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 19, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-log-on-command-prompt/132408 "2008-03-19T20:11:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![vapor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@vapor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vapor)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-log-on-command-prompt/132408/1 "2008-03-19T20:11:32Z")

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At a dev machine in office, I can see all the development log on command  
prompt (windows xp) as I use application…displaying all the queries  
and stuff…but I just setup this new machine and it doesnt show any  
logs, it just keeps displaying like press Ctrl+C to stop etc.

Any idea?

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**Author:** ![vapor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@vapor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vapor)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-log-on-command-prompt/132408/2 "2008-03-21T16:31:43Z")

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Mongrel does this automatically, but WEBrick doesn’t. If you can  
install mongrel, you might get what you’re looking for (and it tends  
to be preferred to WEBrick, anyway).

sudo gem install mongrel

(I believe.) Otherwise, you can open a terminal and type…

tail -f log/development.log

…if you’re in your application root directory. Of course, if your  
new machine is also a Windows machine, you’ll have to ask others for  
help.

-Kyle

On Mar 19, 2:11 pm, “Vapor …” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)