From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: 2005-10-06T00:18:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.3 breaks Needle's logger?

On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:14 AM, Berger, Daniel wrote:

> The problem was a hard coded "Format" constant in the Logger class  
> that
> defined the format.  This was bad, but not fatal.  The
> ActiveRecord/Nitro/Needle/Glue, etc, folks made it worse when, instead
> of subclassing, they redefined the Logger class and did things like
> 'remove_const "Format"', among other questionable decisions.  I'm not
> sure who wrote that code first but it was, unfortunately, copied and
> used by several authors.

*Ahem*. For what it's worth, Needle *does* subclass Logger. ;) And  
subclassing is no protection against a change in an internal API.

- Jamis