Because I was backing some stuff up, I was looking at sizes of directories and I noticed that The Tracks directory was taking up a whopping 180Mb of space! It turns out that I had a log file of about 175Mb lying around there…

Is there any way that I can disable logging altogether in Tracks? (I’m still using 1.041, since I’m on a single user install…)

This would be a Ruby on Rails issuse. Have you tried doing a corn job to delete the files everyday?

@daily rm /home/www/gtd/rails/log/*.log

Hmm, that would be a very nasty work-around, which I’m not very enthousiastic about..

But if all else fails, I’d do that.

It’s a default Rails thing. First, make sure that you’re using production mode. You should be anyway for normal work, but development mode generates much more verbose logging. Second, you can put this into your config/production.rb file, at the bottom:


RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.level = Logger::FATAL


Then you should only get anything written to the log when the application has a fatal error.

Finally, if you want to clean up the logs periodically, you can either use a cron job as myles suggested, or you could use a rake task. Change to the tracks directory and type:


rake log:clear