script/generate broken on vendored rails2.3.4 project

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I was trying to add cucumber to a project which is using rails2.3.4 (which is vendored). The script/generate cucumber step is failing.

I first thought that this was a problem specific to cucumber but it appears that script/generate is broken in general:

$ script/generate model foo --backtrace undefined method `exists' for #<ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger:0x000001017500d8>   /Users/rick/fifthrail/legalpm/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/commands.rb:321:in `directory'   /Users/rick/fifthrail/legalpm/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/manifest.rb:47:in `block in send_actions'   /Users/rick/fifthrail/legalpm/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/manifest.rb:46:in `each'   /Users/rick/fifthrail/legalpm/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/manifest.rb:46:in `send_actions'   /Users/rick/fifthrail/legalpm/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/manifest.rb:31:in `replay'   /Users/rick/fifthrail/legalpm/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/commands.rb:42:in `invoke!'   /Users/rick/fifthrail/legalpm/vendor/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/scripts.rb:31:in `run'   /Users/rick/fifthrail/legalpm/vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/generate.rb:6:in `<top (required)>'   script/generate:3:in `require'   script/generate:3:in `<main>'

The problem is that the logger in the generator doesn't seem to be the right type here's the directory method in railsties/rails_generator/commands.rb which is failing:

        def directory(relative_path)           path = destination_path(relative_path)           if File.exist?(path)             logger.exists relative_path           else             logger.create relative_path   # ...

Instead of an ActiveSupport::BufferecLogger, logger seems like it should be something else, but I haven't yet been able to figure out where it's set and what has gone wrong.

Any ideas?

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So the following seems to only happen when I run script/generate under ruby 1.9.1

If I use 1.8.7 script/generate works!

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I tracked it down.

The problem was being caused by the log_buddy gem http://github.com/relevance/log_buddy

This adds a logger method to Object which clobbers the Rails generator script commands logger.

That cost me an hour or two.