To configure Rails to rotate your log files while in the development and test environments, add the following to your development.rb
and test.rb
files found within /config/environments/
# Keeps the Last 5 logfiles which are rotated at every 5MB
config.logger = Logger.new("#{Rails.root}/log/#{ENV['RAILS_ENV']}.log", 5, 5242880)
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