diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
index 13bff745245368449de8ac43b2d550bcd9c6d776..e9e3895a69d9b6d82d84343e14ee6927e0d5c9fd 100644
--- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+*SVN*
+
+* Added silencing to the default Logger class
+
+
 *1.0.4* (19th April, 2005)
 
 * Fixed that in some circumstances controllers outside of modules may have hidden ones inside modules. For example, admin/content might have been hidden by /content. #1075 [Nicholas Seckar]
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/clean_logger.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/clean_logger.rb
index 1a36562892aaa912e8f6bae5f0f851cf16e0eb15..df9a6867eca6cf6497c99490e0f71e53aa5ea7a2 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/clean_logger.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/clean_logger.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 require 'logger'
 
 class Logger #:nodoc:
+  # Silences the logger for the duration of the block.
+  def silence
+    result = nil
+    old_logger_level = level
+    self.level = Logger::ERROR
+    result = yield
+    self.level = old_logger_level
+    return result
+  end
+
   private
     remove_const "Format"
     Format = "%s\n"