Tail f to an element using ajax

Rails
1

hi all,

do you think it would be possible to tail -f the production log and
update
an html element using rjs

so that the web page is updated every time the production log is
updated?

basically I want to see my logs on an admin web page so I don’t have to
ssh
into my server

dion

2

Dion H. wrote:

do you think it would be possible to tail -f the production log and
update an html element using rjs

so that the web page is updated every time the production log is updated?

All you need is periodically_call_remote. Get googling!

basically I want to see my logs on an admin web page so I don’t have to
ssh into my server

I would only abuse Ajax for a paying customer. For myself, I would
simply either
nab one of several log-reading websites which I suspect are out there,
or would
dump the log into a 

 tag and then hit refresh frequently - or

automate the

refresh with a META tag.


Is there some reason you need to watch your logs so often?


–

Phlip

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3

You could do something like this which I think is more secure… you
are
using Capistrano, right?

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2484

4

thats a neat trick…

but requires you to be on a development machine with capistrano

I want to be able to monitor my logs from any machine, with just the
browser…

5

If you want a bit more flashy tailing of your logfiles, you could have a
look at glTail from http://www.fudgie.org

We’re running it at work on a big monitor with great success.

– Erlend