automatically clear rails development logs on startup if they're too big

clear_dev_logs_in_rails.rb

# config/initializers/clear_logs.rb
 
# This snippet simply clears your logs when they are too large.
# Every time you start the rails environment it checks log sizes 
# and clears the logs for you if necessary.
 
if Rails.env.development?
  MAX_LOG_SIZE = 10.megabytes
  
  logs = File.join(Rails.root, 'log', '*.log')
  if Dir[logs].any? {|log| File.size?(log).to_i > MAX_LOG_SIZE }
    $stdout.puts "Development log files too large. Running rake log:clear"
    `RAILS_ENV=development rake log:clear`
  end 
end