tail log output visible in gui

[wherewelive]

Hi! Is it possible to tail the output visible in the GUI? Tried each of the logs in /.sonic-pi/logs with no luck.

Thanks in advance!

[xavriley]

Hi,

The log in the GUI is controller by OSC (open sound control) messages sent from the Ruby server. You can't tail it as such, but you could get a similar effect by setting up a program called oscdump to listen on port 4558. oscdump just listens on a port and spits out the messages to stdout.

If you're on a mac with homebrew install you can get oscdump by running

$ brew install liblo

then running

$ oscdump osc.udp://:4558

BUT you won't be able to run the GUI at the same time. You'll have to run the ruby server directly like so

$ ./app/server/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb

As you can see, this is getting a bit complicated but that's probably your best bet for now.

[wherewelive]

Thanks for the help! Using vim as my editor so don't need the GUI as long as I can run the server directly. Trying to setup a buffer where I can see the output next to the file I am working on.

[xavriley]

Cool maybe post a screenshot or something in here with any notes on what you needed to get it working. Also make sure you check out the sonic-pi-cli gem for sending buffers from vim to Sonic Pi.

[wherewelive]

Will do! Have the cli working and running scripts from vim. When I get the output visible next to my working file I will share the solution. Thanks again!

[wherewelive]

Getting an error trying to start the server from cmd line on osx:

$ ./app/server/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb
Could not load did_you_mean
/Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/vendor/rugged/lib/rugged.rb:25:in `require_relative': cannot load such file -- /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/rb-native/osx/2.1.4p265/rugged (LoadError)

Checked out the file and has to do with ruby version. Running ruby -v returns:
ruby 2.1.4p265 (2014-10-27 revision 48166) [x86_64-darwin14.0]

However ruby version at path /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/rb-native/osx/ is 2.2.2p95

Anyway I can update to that version?

[xavriley]

TLDR: Run it with the following command instead

$ cd /Applications/Sonic\ Pi.app/
$ /Applications/Sonic\ Pi.app/app/server/native/osx/ruby/bin/ruby ./app/server/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb

Explanation: The sonic-pi-server.rb starts with the following line

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

which is known as a "shebang" in the unix world. When you execute the file directly as you were doing, it uses this shebang as a hint for where to find the program it needs to use to interpret the file. In this case it was using whatever your default Ruby was set to (version 2.1.4). The way Sonic Pi loads the gems currently uses the Ruby version to find where the compiled gems live. Because of the difference between your default Ruby version and the one that ships with Sonic Pi, it couldn't find the right folders.

By specifying the exact ruby version (in this case the one we ship with Sonic Pi) we can ignore the shebang line altogether and the correct version of Ruby will be used. That way the folder names will be right and it should load the gems without problems.

[xavriley]

It looks like this set of tools might be the way to go here now https://github.com/lpil/sonic-pi-tools

In any case I don't think this is going to be a built in feature for a while and it looks like there are tools to solve the problem in the meantime. Might be worth closing this issue.

[wherewelive]

I was able to get this working...

I cloned the repo and followed the install from source instructions (for OSX) ignoring the QT GUI instructions since we are not using it.

I used RVM to install Ruby 2.1.0 which seemed to solve all of the ruby version issues (would be nice if someone else could confirm that this works).

After installing and linking SuperCollider and compiling the extensions per the instructions, I started the ocsdump oscdump osc.udp://:4558 and then started the server ./app/server/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb and viola!

Opened vim (after installing the vim plugin) and ran the code using the leader keys and voila!!

[samaaron]

We definitely want to have a simple way of viewing the contents of the /.sonic-pi/log/* files in the GUI.

If someone wants to work on this, that would be ace :-)

[samaaron]

Just a quick note to say that I have a rudimentary experimental version of a log viewer written in Elixir LiveView which I hope to make available in an upcoming BETA.