i followed the observer documentation [1] and created, and registered an observer. i had to realise that the observer doesn''t work at all -- in fact the rails application does not even start -- with acts_as_taggable, for whatever reason. i must admit that i''m still using ruby 1.8.2. however, after commenting the acts_as_taggable instruction out the application runs smoothly as always, though it doesn''t log as expected. i was logging as in the documentation [1] def after_create(project) project.logger.info("new project created") end after that didn''t work i tried to log the action into the database by creating a log table and a model. after that was done i alterd the after_create method to def after_create(project) log = Log.new # set the attributes here ... log.save end after creating some projects i looked in the database with the expectation to see some entries. there were no entries. am i doing something wrong? [1] http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Observer.html -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.