# Pretty Log Output on OS X

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pretty-log-output-on-os-x/50940>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 23, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pretty-log-output-on-os-x/50940 "2005-12-23T00:27:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![HunterSs\_Lists](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@HunterSs\_Lists](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HunterSs_Lists)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pretty-log-output-on-os-x/50940/1 "2005-12-23T00:27:49Z")

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Howdy,

I am using Apple’s Terminal and Rails 1.0 on Tiger.

I am tailing my log files and it seems with one of these updates things  
changed a little. I see all these ‘ESC’ codes all over.

How can I make the output prettier? I’d rather not move to iTerm, not  
one of  
my faves.

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![HunterSs\_Lists](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@HunterSs\_Lists](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HunterSs_Lists)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pretty-log-output-on-os-x/50940/2 "2005-12-23T05:16:44Z")

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You should be able to go into terminal preferences and select the  
‘declare terminal type ($TERM)’ setting to ‘dtterm’ or ‘xterm-color’ -  
that should fix it up for you.

Cheers,

-DF

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**Author:** ![HunterSs\_Lists](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@HunterSs\_Lists](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/HunterSs_Lists)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 7:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pretty-log-output-on-os-x/50940/3 "2005-12-23T07:35:10Z")

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Either this or remove log coloring altogether, see the last section in  
this wiki page :  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoConfigureLogging/](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoConfigureLogging/)

Jean