Viewing Rails log files

Rails
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Hi,
Presently, to view the log files I simply open it in my text editor,
but after sometime when the size of the log files crosses some
megabytes, my text editor starts to hang.
A solution may be to always truncate the log file length to zero bytes
after a time period.
This method surely works for development log files but is not suitable
for production log files, where I don’t want to truncate the log files
to zero very often.
I wanted to ask, is there any plugin or gem which let me see the log
files directly from my browser? (with authentication and all)

At last. Is it a “good idea” and is there any plugin/gem which dumps
the log to database instead of file?

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Typically, the approach is to have some sort of schedule job (or use
logrotate) to rotate your log files each day - you keep an archive of
past days, but your current production.log will only have 24 hours or
less. See http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/DeploymentTips. Of
course if you have a busy site that might not solve your problem. So
you will be better using commands like tail and grep to search your
log.

I haven’t come across anything storing your log in the database.

HTH,
Nicholas