PaperTrail
Track changes to your rails models (by paper-trail-gem)
Audited
Audited (formerly acts_as_audited) is an ORM extension that logs all changes to your Rails models. (by collectiveidea)
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| PaperTrail | Audited | |
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| 18 | 6 | |
| 6,693 | 3,311 | |
| 0.4% | 0.6% | |
| 5.9 | 6.8 | |
| 3 months ago | 15 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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PaperTrail
Posts with mentions or reviews of PaperTrail.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.
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historical data and "point in time" data modeling techniques, advice.
if the source (web) application makes their own audit tables. ex: our ruby on rails application uses the paper-trail gem
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Best rails tools to automatically handle logging of things like all a user's actions, or changes to a record in a module - primarily for audit purposes.
Start with https://github.com/paper-trail-gem/paper_trail
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Inventory/Sales Management module built on a Rails app - what would be the best way to "version" updates made against an SKU.
We use paper_trail for this
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is there a gem for tracking adhoc rails console changes
I think you could use that in conjunction with the paper_trail gem, as /u/GreenCalligrapher571 mentioned, which is also a good suggestion. As an additional note, when changing records in production while using the paper_trail gem, I suggest wrapping your database-mutating statements executed in the rails console within a whodunnit block, so PaperTrail.request(whodunnit: 'Dorian Marié') { widget.update name: 'Wibble' } or something rather than just widget.update name: 'Wibble'. Or, if you have some sort of issue-tracking / ticketing system, you could set the whodunnit value to the ticket number or whatever, and then anyone who wants to know why the records are in the state they're in can consult that ticket, which hopefully has additional relevant context.
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History Tracking With Postgres
For a while we did this using the paper-trail gem. This was a very simple way to add a few lines of code to keep track of all of the changes made to an ActiveRecord model. But it came with one drawback. Every change to the data had to be done through ActiveRecord. There are often times when this makes an app vulnerable to a race condition. I’ll use a contrived example so as not to share any real code from our client’s app.
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Adding soft delete to a Phoenix Commanded (CQRS) API
In most designs, this would probably not be possible unless a table tracking extension is being used in an ORM. Even with change tracking enabled through extensions like paper trail or Django simple history, it can be tricky to restore deleted entities. Object tracking would need to have been enabled before it is needed to ensure the data is still around to be restored.
- Looking for a Rails Gem that Audits Manual Database Changes
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Temporality/time-travelling in DB with ActiveRecord?
Maybe you are looking for the papertrail gem? https://github.com/paper-trail-gem/paper_trail
- Looking for an observer gem
Audited
Posts with mentions or reviews of Audited.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.
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Best rails tools to automatically handle logging of things like all a user's actions, or changes to a record in a module - primarily for audit purposes.
👆This and Audited Gem
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Activity Stream - implementing it n Rails
paper_trail is a good suggestion, I’ve worked with it in the past 👍 Another one that I found during the current investigation is https://github.com/collectiveidea/audited
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Temporality/time-travelling in DB with ActiveRecord?
that and also have a look at audited https://github.com/collectiveidea/audited
- Looking for an observer gem
- Looking for Gem recommendations for alternatives to Paranoia
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PaperTrail and Audited you can also consider the following projects:
Paranoia - acts_as_paranoid for Rails 5, 6 and 7
Logidze - Database changes log for Rails
mongoid-history - Multi-user non-linear history tracking, auditing, undo, redo for mongoid.
ActsAsParanoid - ActiveRecord plugin allowing you to hide and restore records without actually deleting them.
Espinita - Audit activerecord models like a boss (and works with rails 4!)
Discard - 🃏🗑 Soft deletes for ActiveRecord done right
ActiveRecord Import - A library for bulk insertion of data into your database using ActiveRecord.
Destroyed At - ActiveRecord Mixin for Safe Destroys