Module: PaperTrail::Model::ClassMethods

Defined in:
lib/paper_trail/has_paper_trail.rb

Overview

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Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#has_paper_trail(options = {}) ⇒ Object

Declare this in your model to track every create, update, and destroy. Each version of the model is available in the ‘versions` association.

Options:

  • :on - The events to track (optional; defaults to all of them). Set to an array of ‘:create`, `:update`, `:destroy` and `:touch` as desired.

  • :class_name (deprecated) - The name of a custom Version class that includes ‘PaperTrail::VersionConcern`.

  • :ignore - An array of attributes for which a new ‘Version` will not be created if only they change. It can also accept a Hash as an argument where the key is the attribute to ignore (a `String` or `Symbol`), which will only be ignored if the value is a `Proc` which returns truthily.

  • :if, :unless - Procs that allow to specify conditions when to save versions for an object.

  • :only - Inverse of ‘ignore`. A new `Version` will be created only for these attributes if supplied it can also accept a Hash as an argument where the key is the attribute to track (a `String` or `Symbol`), which will only be counted if the value is a `Proc` which returns truthily.

  • :skip - Fields to ignore completely. As with ‘ignore`, updates to these fields will not create a new `Version`. In addition, these fields will not be included in the serialized versions of the object whenever a new `Version` is created.

  • :meta - A hash of extra data to store. You must add a column to the ‘versions` table for each key. Values are objects or procs (which are called with `self`, i.e. the model with the paper trail). See `PaperTrail::Controller.info_for_paper_trail` for how to store data from the controller.

  • :versions - Either,

    • A String (deprecated) - The name to use for the versions association. Default is ‘:versions`.

    • A Hash - options passed to ‘has_many`, plus `name:` and `scope:`.

  • :version - The name to use for the method which returns the version the instance was reified from. Default is ‘:version`.

  • :synchronize_version_creation_timestamp - By default, paper trail sets the ‘created_at` field for a new Version equal to the `updated_at` column of the model being updated. If you instead want `created_at` to populate with the current timestamp, set this option to `false`.

Plugins like the experimental ‘paper_trail-association_tracking` gem may accept additional options.

You can define a default set of options via the configurable ‘PaperTrail.config.has_paper_trail_defaults` hash in your applications initializer. The hash can contain any of the following options and will provide an overridable default for all models.



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# File 'lib/paper_trail/has_paper_trail.rb', line 70

def has_paper_trail(options = {})
  defaults = PaperTrail.config.has_paper_trail_defaults
  paper_trail.setup(defaults.merge(options))
end

#paper_trail ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/paper_trail/has_paper_trail.rb', line 76

def paper_trail
  ::PaperTrail::ModelConfig.new(self)
end