What markup is used in Rails log files?

[matuszek]

I'm using InstantRails, as described in the Patrick Lenz book (which
is very good, BTW). He shows Rails' log files with underlining, boldface,
etc. I can only see the raw markup language, for example,

#[4;35;1mSQL (0.000000)#[0m #[0mROLLBACK#[0m

What markup language is this, and what Windows program should I use
to view it? (In Lenz's book, it's apparently in a bash window).

Thanks,
Dave
matuszek@cis.upenn.edu

[forward]

That should be ANSI. You should be able to turn it off in the Rails::Initializer.run do |config| block inside config/environment.rb:
config.active_record.colorize_logging = false

More options at http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2006/05...he-cheat-sheet


I'm not sure how you can get ANSI support in windows consoles but wikipedia has some info under the support heading.

[matuszek]

Re: config.active_record.colorize_logging = false

That looked promising, but didn't work. I did stop and restart the servers;
I also tried stopping and restarting InstantRails.

I also added the same line to development.rb (config was defined there), but
that didn't work either.

Well, this isn't exactly critical. Thanks for the advice.