Question

I’m facing a really strange problem. When I start rails s, Rails logs as expected to log/development.log file.

As soon as I open it in an editor (e.g. Vi, TextMate) and save it from there, Rails doesn’t write to it anymore! I have to restart the server, and then it works again.

This is really strange, it seems like Vi/TextMate “steals” the right to write the file, and only a restart of the Rails server regains the right again.

Anybody has an idea what’s happening here? This is really annoying. I’m also only able to do rake log:clear as long as I didn’t hit “save” for development.log, so it’s exactly the same strange behavior…

I described a similar strange behavior like this before, and I suspected AckMate to have something to do with it. Sadly, I didn’t get any response, see here.

Thanks a lot for help, this is really bugging me.

Answer 1

vim writes your file to a temporary file and then renames it.

The Rails process keeps writing to the old opened fd.