Killing all rails logs with one Ctrl+C?

Well, this is my first post after holidays and it won’t be very long.

Imagine you are developing a rails application. Usually you have:

• a terminal with the server to see what petitions are received.
• a terminal with a tail of development.log to see what happens with the database.
• a terminal with a tail of test.log if you are testing something.

This are a lot of windows… And the other day one friends was very happy and after asking for a while I discovered that the reason was the simple line showed above… With only one Ctrl+C you can kill all this processes

script/server & tail -f log/development.log & tail -f log/test.log & tail -f ; jobs -p | awk '{print "kill -2 " $0}' | sh

Subversioning a Rails App

The time when application versions where stored in different folders or in zip files has ended. Today we have great tools like Subversion or CVS. This tools must be known by everybody, but for those who aren’t known, they are applications that control versions of files.

While developing a Ruby on Rails application it’s good to use a system like Subversion. In this howto I’ll explain my experience subversioning my Rails app.

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