PaperTrailActor

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

  1. Add PaperTrailActor to your Gemfile.

gem 'paper_trail_actor'

  1. 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.

actor = actor_paper_trail

PaperTrail.whodunnit = actor
PaperTrail.actor

widget.update_attributes :name => 'Wibble'
widget.versions.last.actor

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/paper_trail_actor/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request