Your development log files in Rails is probably huge

I always forget to truncate my development logs, and when I need to debug or dig into the logs, they are dead slow to work with.

Use this simple gist to truncate your logs automagically. It will only touch your development.log, as I do note like when initializers pull production or staging logs into the mix, as that might be a security risk when you just needed to test a part of your app on your production environment.

	# config/initializers/clear_dev_logs.rb
	# This snippet simply clears your logs when they are too large.
	# Large logs for development are usually something you don't want.
	# Every time you run rails server or rails console it checks the size
	# of your development logfile and truncates it.
	if Rails.env.development?
	MAX_LOG_SIZE = 1.megabytes
	DEV_LOG_FILE = File.join(Rails.root, 'log', 'development.log')
	if File.size?(DEV_LOG_FILE).to_i > MAX_LOG_SIZE
	$stdout.puts "-------------------------------------------------"
	$stdout.puts "Truncating development.log...."
	$stdout.puts "-------------------------------------------------"
	File.truncate(DEV_LOG_FILE, 0)
	end
	end

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