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PaperTrailGlobalid
This gem is an extension to paper_trail gem https://github.com/airblade/paper_trail. That means you need to pre install paper_trail
gem. This gem will add one more method actor
to instances of PaperTrail::Version
that will return you the ActiveRecord
object who was responsible for change.
Supported Rails
This Gem only support >= rails 4.1.0
and above versions.
Installation
- Add PaperTrailGlobalid to your
Gemfile
.
gem 'paper_trail-globalid'
- And then execute:
bundle install
Basic Usage
Basically this gem works on stroring global_id to whodunnit field of PaperTrail::Version table
. As this is an additional extension installed, this will not hinder / break existing paper_trail functionalities.
widget = Widget.find 42
widget.versions # [<PaperTrail::Version>, <PaperTrail::Version>, ...]
v = widget.versions.last
Now you can also store object to PaperTrail.whodunnit=
, and if object will be instance of ActiveRecord::Base
it will store the global id in the version's whodunnit
column.
And you can also retrieve the actually object later just by using method actor
.
admin = Admin.find(1) # <Admin:0x007fa2df9a5590>
PaperTrail.whodunnit = admin
PaperTrail.actor # <Admin:0x007fa2df9a5590> actual object
widget.update_attributes :name => 'Wibble'
widget.versions.last.whodunnit # "gid://app/Admin/1"
widget.versions.last.actor # returns the actual object
Method actor
will return the whodunnit value if we pass value another than ActiveRecord
object.
PaperTrail.whodunnit = 'admin_name'
PaperTrail.actor # "admin_name"
widget.update_attributes :name => 'Wibble'
widget.versions.last.whodunnit # "admin_name"
widget.versions.last.actor # "admin_name"
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/paper_trail-globalid/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create a new Pull Request