I was overjoyed yesterday to hear that Coda, my Mac web development software of choice, finally supports real plugins! They can be written in scripting languages or good old fashioned Cocoa (which lets you give them an interface), and they way they’ve been implemented is very smooth.

I’ve been doing a lot of work with CakePHP lately, and I often want to open the error.log file, but it’s buried pretty deep in the directory structure. So I built a quick Coda plugin that simply opens the error.log file for the open Coda site in the default Mac Console application.

You can use download it below – no promises it will always work of course, it’s certainly not bullet proof yet. Just unzip and double click it once it’s downloaded, after making sure you have the latest version of Coda, and it should install itself and appear in your new “Plugins” menu.  

Download Cake Error Log Plugin

Update: Also fun – hit Control-Q and type error.log – bang, Coda’s new quick open feature will pull it right up for you. But if you want it to open in Console instead of Coda, this is your best shot.