# Custom format with BufferedLogger?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/custom-format-with-bufferedlogger/153495>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 18, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/custom-format-with-bufferedlogger/153495 "2008-11-18T00:32:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/custom-format-with-bufferedlogger/153495/1 "2008-11-18T00:32:22Z")

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So Rails2 provides a new BufferedLogger class that is used for logging.  
The old monkey-patched Logger class is deprecated.

It’s nice that the new BufferedLogger doesn’t do that weird monkey  
patching thing, making it easier to sub-class for custom behavior and  
set your sub-class as the logger, etc.

But oddly, BufferedLogger is not a sub-class of the Ruby logger. It’s  
its own thing. Which seems to provide no good way to set a custom format  
for output log messages.

Anyone figured out a good way to use BufferedLogger (or a subclass), but  
set your own format for output, like you can with the default ruby  
Logger class?

I wonder why BufferedLogger wasn’t made a sub-class of Logger.

Jonathan