Looking at the RubyForge website, this seems to be an open bug.

-Zach

On Monday 30 January 2006 07:27 am, Alex Combas wrote:
> $ cat /etc/lsb-release
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=5.10
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=breezy
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu (The Breezy Badger Release)"
>
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.3 (2005-06-23) [i486-linux]
>

Exactly, 1.8.3 was released on 09/21/2005. Somebody took a development
snapshot instead of taking critical patches and declared it the ruby to be
used in Ubuntu Breezy. The people who noticed the version were a bit too 
late
and Breezy had already been frozen.

Tsume

> On 1/29/06, tsumeruby / tsumelabs.com <tsumeruby tsumelabs.com> wrote:
> > Just a note, the ruby included with breezy is not 1.8.3 release. ruby -v
> > Most people build their own snapshot of ruby. I never trust a
> > distributors ruby because they 1) keep taking snapshots from a SCM, or 2)
> > make modifications which break existing code.
> >
> > Tsume
> >
> > On Monday 30 January 2006 06:09 am, Zach Moazeni wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >     I'm having an issue with a Formatter for Log4R.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to use the %c format directive to display the Line Number of
> > > the file and for some reason it keeps throwing an error.
> > >
> > > I'm using Ubuntu Breezy 5.1, Ruby 1.8.3, and Log4R 1.0.5. Is anyone
> > > else having any similar issues?
> > >
> > > Error Msg :
> > > (eval):2:in `format': undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
> > > (NoMethodError) from
> > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/log4r/outputter/outputter.rb:118:in
> > > `format' from
> > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/log4r/outputter/outputter.rb:108:in
> > > `canonical_log'
> > >         from
> > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/log4r/outputter/outputter.rb:108:in
> > > `synch' from
> > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/log4r/outputter/outputter.rb:128:in
> > > `synchronize'
> > >         from
> > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/log4r/outputter/outputter.rb:128:in
> > > `synch' from
> > > /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/log4r/outputter/outputter.rb:108:in
> > > `canonical_log'
> > >         from (eval):3:in `debug'
> > >         from (eval):8:in `debug'
> > >         from (eval):8:in `each'
> > >         from (eval):8:in `debug'
> > >         from ./blah.rb:37:in `happy'
> > >         from ./blah.rb:42
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Here is the small snipbit of code
> > >
> > > require 'log4r'
> > > include Log4r
> > >
> > > class MyClass
> > >
> > >
> > >         def initialize
> > >                 puts('init')
> > >                 @my_log = Logger.new 'myLog'
> > >                 formatter =
> > >                         PatternFormatter.new(
> > > #:pattern => "%l[%d] %t %1M")
> > >
> > > :pattern => "%5l [%d] %t: %.25M",
> > > :date_pattern => "%H:%M:%S")
> > >
> > >                 @my_log.outputters = FileOutputter.new('myLog',
> > >
> > > :filename => "log_file",
> > > :trunc => false,
> > > :formatter => formatter)
> > >
> > >                 puts(Kernel.caller[0].to_s)
> > >         end
> > >
> > >         protected
> > >         def logger
> > >                 puts("got logger")
> > >                 @my_log
> > >         end
> > >
> > > end
> > >
> > > class MyChild < MyClass
> > >         def initialize
> > >                 super
> > >         end
> > >
> > >         def happy
> > >                 logger.debug('happy')
> > >         end
> > > end
> > >
> > > c = MyChild.new
> > > c.happy
> > >
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate any and all input. Thanks!
> > > -Zach
>
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