Rails - Sep 2005 - YAML log format?

The default log format (including colorizing escape sequences for
white on black screens) is wrong on so many levels that I won''t
even try to address it here.  Fortunately, there''s an easy way to
turn off the escape sequences, as noted in the wiki:

   http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowtoConfigureLogging

Even with that out of the way, however, the log messages aren''t
trivial to parse.  Bearing in mind DMR''s comment about assuming
that the output of any program will be the input of another, I
would like to suggest that a version of logger be created that
produces YAML output.  FWIW, Apple is moving in this direction
(though they don''t use YAML) for their system error logs.  Does
anyone else like the idea of trivially-parsable error logs?

-r

P.S.  A quick Google search didn''t find any hits on this idea;
       let me know if an implementation already exists.  (:-)
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Hello
> aren''t trivial to parse.  Bearing in mind DMR''s comment
about
> assuming that the output of any program will be the input of 
> another, I would like to suggest that a version of logger be 
> created that produces YAML output.  FWIW, Apple is moving in 
> this direction (though they don''t use YAML) for their system 
> error logs.  Does anyone else like the idea of 
> trivially-parsable error logs?
If any new logging format, then XML would be the way to go, imho. It can be
translated into every other output format you can imagine. Using XSLT you
could even group errors, warnings and other type of informations and layout
it in nice tables or even trees.

That would, of course, make the log files much larger.

Phil