From: Ben Giddings <ben@...>
Date: 2003-08-29T06:19:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Log4r with Ruby 1.8

Stephan K�mper wrote:
> C:/RUBY/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/log4r/formatter/formatter.rb:58:in 
> `sprintf': unnumbered(1) mixed with numbered (ArgumentError)

It has to do with how the author of Log4r implemented his sprintfs. 
Apparently you can number your parameters or not, but you can't mix them:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/663

In this case, the solution is to change this:

   class SimpleFormatter < Formatter
     @@simpleformat = "%*4$s %s> %s\n"
     def format(event)
       sprintf @@simpleformat, LNAMES[event.level],
               event.name, event.data, MaxLevelLength
     end
   end

to this:

   class SimpleFormatter < Formatter
     @@simpleformat = "%*4$1$s %2$s> %3$s\n"
     def format(event)
       sprintf @@simpleformat, LNAMES[event.level],
               event.name, event.data, MaxLevelLength
     end
   end

and this:

   class BasicFormatter < SimpleFormatter
     @@basicformat = "%*3$s %s"

to this:

   class BasicFormatter < SimpleFormatter
     @@basicformat = "%*3$1$s %2$s"

in log4r/formatter/formatter.rb

I'm not sure if the author is still actively maintaining Log4r, but if 
he is, someone should ask him to update this, as well as start using 
#class rather than #type.  His code spits out a lot of warnings because 
of this.

Ben