LogsViewer

This gem was developed to make possible the visualization of the application logs in the browser.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'logs_viewer'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install logs_viewer

Configuration (Rails)

Create file config/initializers/logs_viewer.rb with the following content:

LogsViewer::Config.number_lines = 1000
LogsViewer::Config.log_dir = "log"

Add the hack on their application in the file config/application.rb

module YourApplicationModule
  class Application < Rails::Application

    # Rack to intercept path /logs
    config.middleware.use LogsViewer::Display
  end
end

Usage

After creating the initialization file and add the rack, go to your project the path /logs: (http://your-app:port/logs)

Example display

gem-logs-viewer.png

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/logs_viewer.