The Rails log is a very valuable resource. It contains a lot of information and its relatively easy to read.

However, I find that It doesn’t take long to get pretty sick of scrolling around, visually decoding, not to mention that the ansi covered SQL is a pain.

Logeye is my itch-scratcher to make it better and more useful. You point it at either your RAILS_ROOT or directly at a log file, and watch the requests flow past as you develop your app.

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Logeye 0.3.6

Features and problems

• In the open dialog you select RAILS_ROOT, not the log file itself.
• Double click a log entry to open the corresponding controller file in your editor (set in preferences)
• You can set window alpha, and make the windows float above other apps (set in preferences)
• The zoom + does something useful.

Upcoming Features

• filtering, searching
• smarter opening.
• refined log details view with visual distinction for each kind of line.
• easy copying of SQL.
• easy opening of files referred to in backtraces.
• backtrace filtering.

update 1 2007/08/19

Released Logeye 0.3

changes:

• refined look
• ability to open log files directly
• parsing of intra-request fluff

update 2 2007/08/19

Released Logeye 0.3.5

changes:

• now opens nested controllers
• it remembers which logs it was tailing last time you had it open and reopens them
• more looks

Logeye 0.3.6 is a minor bugfix