From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T04:40:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Buncha logging stuff showing up in unit tests

On 11/23/05, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
>
> > I'm using Ruby's standard Logger to log a bunch of debug, info, and
> > errors.
> >
> > But when I run the unit tests for the classes that use the Logger, all
> > the logs are showing up in the test output.
> >
> > Any good solutions for solving this?
>
> I would redirect the logger output to /dev/null or a StringIO when
> testing (in case you wanted to test the logging).

How do the classes know whether or not they are being tested?

Eventually, I will be using a custom Logging method that sends all the
logs to some network log daemon thingy so that all the logs are kept
on one machine.