Is this common

Rails
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Hi,
I have a webapp built using ruby on rails. The login page takes the
username and password.
When I run the application and check the development.log file I see the
passwords in that file in text format of users loggin in.
Is this common? I’m the administrator so only I have access to those
files, but still is there a way for me to tell rails not to spit out all
those lines in the log files.

Thanks,
Dev

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Jay D. wrote:

Dev

Add this to your application.rb…

filter_parameter_logging “password”

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Jon G. wrote:

Jay D. wrote:

Dev

Add this to your application.rb…

filter_parameter_logging “password”

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Jon,
Thank you, that worked. BTW, how often do you delete log files and is
there a command you use to delete the file or clear the file.

Thanks.

4

You should consider analyze your log files and then truncate it with:

rake log:clear # Truncates all *.log files in log/ to
zero bytes

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Jay D. wrote:

Jon,
Thank you, that worked. BTW, how often do you delete log files and is
there a command you use to delete the file or clear the file.

Thanks.

You can add something like this to your environment.rb…

#Rotate logs on server restart
config.logger = Logger.new(“#{RAILS_ROOT}/log/#{ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’]}.log”,
5, 1048576)

I believe the above settings are keep the last 5 log files, and limit
their size to 1048576 bytes. (Don’t ask me why we have that particular
file size in our config. I must have been in a strange mood that day.)

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Jon G. wrote:

#Rotate logs on server restart
config.logger = Logger.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/log/#{ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’]}.log",
5, 1048576)

I believe the above settings are keep the last 5 log files, and limit
their size to 1048576 bytes. (Don’t ask me why we have that particular
file size in our config. I must have been in a strange mood that day.)

1048576 is exactly 1MByte (1024 x 1024)… Is that why?

Cheers,
Mohit.
8/31/2007 | 2:20 PM.