Tailing Development Log

Rails
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I’m in Chapter 6 of the RoR Tutorial and can’t seem to get the command
‘tail -f log/development.log’ to work. I’m trying to run it in a
sanboxed Rails console, here’s the output of what’s going on:

Trenton-Scotts-MacBook-Air:sample_app TTS$ rails c --sandbox
Loading development environment in sandbox (Rails 3.0.3)
Any modifications you make will be rolled back on exit
ruby-1.9.2-p136 :001 > tail -f log/development.log
SyntaxError: (irb):1: syntax error, unexpected tIDENTIFIER, expecting
keyword_do or ‘{’ or ‘(’
tail -f log/development.log
^
from /Users/TTS/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/
rails/commands/console.rb:44:in start' from /Users/TTS/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/ rails/commands/console.rb:8:instart’
from /Users/TTS/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p136/gems/railties-3.0.3/lib/
rails/commands.rb:23:in <top (required)>' from script/rails:6:inrequire’
from script/rails:6:in `’
ruby-1.9.2-p136 :002 >

Any thoughts?

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On 5 Feb 2011, at 19:22, Trenton S. [email protected] wrote:

I’m in Chapter 6 of the RoR Tutorial and can’t seem to get the command
‘tail -f log/development.log’ to work. I’m trying to run it in a
sanboxed Rails console, here’s the output of what’s going on:

You run that from a terminal window, not from
The rails console.

Fred