It didn't come with the distribution, I installed it via apt-get. Is anyone else getting an error like this?
-Zach
$ 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
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On Monday 30 January 2006 07:27 am, Alex Combas wrote:
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--
Alex Combas
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