Thanks everyone for the replies. Thanks Ed, I'm glad to hear that there are more people doing it.
On Wednesday, 2 November 2016 09:37:50 UTC+10, ed wrote: > > an alternative to this change would be to symlink log/yourlog.log to > /dev/null > > $ ln -s log/production.log /dev/null > > I do this, and it works well for me in dev mode without impact to others > sharing the repo or other environments. > > > > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Lucas Caton <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi there. >> >> >> I know this, although easy, would be a big step. So I'd love to hear your >> thoughts. >> >> >> I can't remember the last time I needed to open/read log/development.log >> or log/test.log. >> This is just consuming disk space unnecessarily (my test.loge easily >> reaches more than 1 GB!). >> >> After talking to some other developers, all of them agreed they don't use >> it as well. >> >> >> What if we change this behaviour to be optional? It'd still display the >> logs through the STDOUT, though. >> >> I've been doing it in my projects and couldn't find a reason not to do it. >> >> >> The way I currently do it is similar to what Heroku's rails_12factor gem >> used to do (and now is the default in Rails for *production* >> environment): >> >> >> # config/environments/development.rb >> >> # Prevents from writing logs on `log/development.log` >> >> logger = ActiveSupport::Logger.new(STDOUT) >> >> logger.formatter = config.log_formatter >> >> config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(logger) >> >> >> # config/environments/test.rb >> >> # Prevents from writing logs on `log/test.log` >> >> config.log_level = :warn >> >> logger = ActiveSupport::Logger.new(STDOUT) >> >> logger.formatter = config.log_formatter >> >> config.logger = ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging.new(logger) >> >> >> Thank you, >> Lucas. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
