You can unsubscribe a subscriber

activesupport/lib/active_support/notifications.rb

@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ module ActiveSupport
         @queue.bind(pattern).subscribe(&block)
       end
 
+      def unsubscribe(subscriber)
+        @queue.unsubscribe(subscriber)
+      end
+
       def wait
         @queue.wait
       end

activesupport/lib/active_support/notifications/fanout.rb

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ module ActiveSupport
     # just pushes events to all registered log subscribers.
     class Fanout
       def initialize
-        @log_subscribers = []
+        @subscribers = []
       end
 
       def bind(pattern)
@@ -12,11 +12,16 @@ module ActiveSupport
       end
 
       def subscribe(pattern = nil, &block)
-        @log_subscribers << Subscriber.new(pattern, &block)
+        @subscribers << Subscriber.new(pattern, &block)
+        @subscribers.last
+      end
+
+      def unsubscribe(subscriber)
+        @subscribers.delete(subscriber)
       end
 
       def publish(*args)
-        @log_subscribers.each { |s| s.publish(*args) }
+        @subscribers.each { |s| s.publish(*args) }
       end
 
       # This is a sync queue, so there is not waiting.

activesupport/test/notifications_test.rb

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ module Notifications
       ActiveSupport::Notifications.notifier = nil
       @notifier = ActiveSupport::Notifications.notifier
       @events = []
-      @notifier.subscribe { |*args| @events << event(*args) }
+      @subscription = @notifier.subscribe { |*args| @events << event(*args) }
     end
 
     private
@@ -19,6 +19,18 @@ module Notifications
       end
   end
 
+  class UnsubscribeTest < TestCase
+    def unsubscribing_removes_a_subscription
+      @notifier.publish :foo
+      @notifier.wait
+      assert_equal [[:foo]], @events
+      @notifier.unsubscribe(@subscription)
+      @notifier.publish :bar
+      @notifier.wait
+      assert_equal [[:foo]], @events
+    end
+  end
+
   class SyncPubSubTest < TestCase
     def test_events_are_published_to_a_listener
       @notifier.publish :foo