Automatically Rotate your Log Files in Development

by Trevor Turk

I’m trying to save hard drive space, since I’ve got this super small (and fast?) SSD hard drive on the way. I noticed that I was using a TON of space to store totally worthless logs for my Rails apps. Now, I know I could set up proper log rotation, but I don’t feel like going through the trouble for my local machine.

Here’s a quick tip I picked up here that will set your logs to automatically rotate in the test and development environments. Just add the following line to these files:

config/development.rb
config/test.rb

config.logger = Logger.new(config.log_path, 2, 20.megabytes)

Make sure you’ve got these in your .gitignore file as well:

/log/*
*.log

That will keep your log files under control, but with plenty of room for digging in if need be.

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