Issue #11695 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada. Status changed from Open to Assigned Assignee changed from Naotoshi Seo to Hiroshi Nakamura ---------------------------------------- Feature #11695: Support symbol and string for Logger#level= https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11695#change-54873 * Author: Naotoshi Seo * Status: Assigned * Priority: Normal * Assignee: Hiroshi Nakamura ---------------------------------------- Added Logger#level=:symbol and Logger#level=string as we talked at https://twitter.com/frsyuki/status/664862229490089984. This is useful especially when we configure log_level with yaml (typically, on rails application) like settings.yml log_level: DEBUG and logger.level = Settings.log_level The patch is available at https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1101 -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/