capistrano-logtail

Log tailing for capistrano

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano-logtail'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install capistrano-logtail

Configuration

set :logtail_files, %w( /var/log/syslog )
set :logtail_lines, 50

Usage

Require in Capfile:

require 'capistrano/logtail'

This will add the following tasks:

• logs:tail[]
• logs:tail:all
• logs:tail:rails

Add tasks for other log files as required:

# config/deploy.rb

namespace :logs do
  namespace :tail do
    desc 'Tail sidekiq log'
    task :sidekiq do
      on roles(:app) do
        logtail_utility.tail(release_path.join('log', 'sidekiq.log'))
      end
    end
  end
end

# cap production logs:tail:sidekiq

Examples:

$ cap production logs:tail:all
$ cap production logs:tail:rails
$ cap production logs:tail[production] # tails shared/log/production.log
$ cap production logs:tail[/var/log/nginx/access.log]
$ cap production logs:tail # uses value of logtail_files
$ cap production logs:tail n=100 # specify number of existing lines to show

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request