A ruby application on rails or not can leak memory either in the ruby code or at the c code level.
Ruby console log.
Think about our toy app.
It was designed to give you as quick a start on the ruby logging world as humanly possible.
The console command lets you interact with your rails application from the command line.
The difference between the two is that the latter adds a new line character.
Since web console evaluates plain ruby code remotely on the server don t try to use it in production.
I ve got a ruby statement that generates lots of prints 8k lines and i d like to be able to see it completely but the console only remembers the last 1024 lines or so.
When working on the js for bugsnag i kept accidentally typing console log into rails.
Usr bin ruby print apple print apple n puts orange puts orange the print and puts methods produce textual output on the console.
Enter the logging framework.
On the underside rails console uses irb so if you ve ever used it you ll be right at home.
Log a message when a console rendering is prevented defaults.
So i thought about redirecting to a file if anyone knows a better option i m all ears.
See even though the demo app logs to a file there s nothing preventing you from logging to a variety of targets such as the database the console or even an online service.