Question

When I use rails/server (WEBrick) I get constant debug info (queries, etc) from my rails app as console output. Is there a way to get this debug output with Pow?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can check the HTTP requests that Pow receives by running tail -f on the log file of your choice in the ~/Library/Logs/Pow directory. Check out the Pow manual section on Viewing Log Files

If you’re looking for Rails specific logs, they’ll be located in the log/ directory of your application. For instance, if you want to watch the development log for your application switch to the root director of the application and run:

tail -f log/development.log

There’s also less which will give you a few more options, but isn’t quite as simple to use.

less -R log/development.log

and then press ctrl-f to follow new output to the file. Pressing h will give you a more detailed help menu.