From: Nick Dainty Date: 2006-07-13T08:48:37+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby's Logger vs ActiveRecord: no more Logger data output > Funny, I was just having this same problem with Logger and ActiveRecord. I > can't seem to get your solution to work. Have a look at clean_logger.rb in active support. In my copy of rails (latest stable branch) it does this: alias old_format_message format_message Which is what makes my example work. -- Nick.