Visualising Log Activity with Ruby and OpenGL with glTail
Here’s an interesting combination of Ruby and OpenGL, glTail lets you visualise log activity in realtime. Check out the screencasts on the project page!
One thing to note at the time of writing, it assumes that the command for getting incoming log data, i.e “tail -f” is non blocking. So if you need to use “sudo tail -f”, the application won’t work properly for this situation. I might give it a shot at adding sudo support when I have some time to spare.
The quick spike I did for this suggests that I’ll need to use a shell to respond to password challenges. Incidentally, Capistrano already has this figured out, so i’ll be a good place to look for clues.