truncate Rails development/test logs

laurelfan (Laurel Fan) — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:17:16 GMT

In rails applications development.log and test.log like to grow forever, which takes up space and makes them slow to grep. If I just delete them running processes with logs open might get confused. So I can use truncate instead:



truncate ~/www/*/log/*.log

Even easier, ask cron to do it for me every night:



4 22 * * * * truncate -s 0k  ~/www/*/log/*.log

Typo export to Wordpress WXR (script version)

laurelfan (Laurel Fan) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:41:54 GMT

I tried to use this method here: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3264 however my typo blog was too slow and it kept timing out (which is why we're switching to wordpress anyway...). So I stole the code and hacked it up a bit so it could be run as a script.

Put this in $RAILS_ROOT/script/wp_export.rb, and run it like:



RAILS_ENV=production ./script/wp_export.rb > out.wxr

Import it with the "Import Wordpress" tool in your wordpress blog's admin interface.



#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../config/boot'

require 'environment'



require 'application'



# we need a controller to generate html output

class FakeController < ApplicationController

  include ActionView::Helpers::TextHelper

  include ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper

end

fake_controller = FakeController.new



articles = Article.find(:all)



xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new(:target => STDOUT, :indent => 2)



xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>"1.0", :encoding=>"UTF-8"

xml.rss 'version' => "2.0",

        'xmlns:content' => "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/",

        'xmlns:wfw' => "http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/",

        'xmlns:dc' => "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/",

        'xmlns:wp' => "http://wordpress.org/export/1.0/" do

  xml.channel do

    xml.title "The Robot Co-op"

    xml.link "http://www.robotcoop.com"

    xml.language "en-us"

    xml.ttl "40"

    xml.description "Robot coop blog"



    articles.each do |a|

        xml.item do

          xml.title a.title

          xml.content(:encoded) { |x| x << a.html(fake_controller, :all) }

          xml.pubDate a.published_at.rfc2822

          xml.guid "urn:uuid:{a.guid}", "isPermaLink" => "false"

          author = a.user.name rescue a.author

          xml.author author

          xml.dc :creator, author

          for category in a.categories

            xml.category category.name

          end

          for tag in a.tags

            xml.category tag.display_name

          end

          xml.wp :post_id, a.id

          xml.wp :post_date, a.published_at.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

          xml.wp :comment_status, 'closed'

          xml.wp :ping_status, 'closed'

          xml.wp :post_name, a.permalink

          xml.wp :status, 'publish'

          xml.wp :post_parent, '0'

          xml.wp :post_type, 'post'

          for comment in a.comments

            xml.wp(:comment) do

              xml.wp :comment_id, comment.id

              xml.wp :comment_author, comment.author

              xml.wp :comment_author_email, comment.email

              xml.wp :comment_author_url, comment.url

              xml.wp :comment_author_IP, comment.ip

              xml.wp :comment_date, comment.published_at.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

              xml.wp(:comment_content) { |x| x << comment.body }

              xml.wp :comment_approved, '1'

              xml.wp :comment_parent, '0'

            end

          end

       end

    end

  end

end

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truncate Rails development/test logs

Typo export to Wordpress WXR (script version)