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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
Ruby on Rails
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GitHub Incident with Issues, API Requests and Pull Requests
[0] is a my favorite demonstration of it.
[0]: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...
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Client side Git hooks 101
Here's a real life example: Imagine a Ruby on Rails app on which a team of developers are working. The code is hosted on GitLab and all the work is coordinated using GitLab issues. In other words: For every commit, there's an associated issue and the issue number acts as a sort of primary key for documentation, time reporting and so forth. This convention has a few advantages, most notably the ability to easily learn more about how, when and by whom features were implemented as well as how this implementation came to be.
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16 Best Ruby Frameworks For Web Development [2024]
Ruby on Rails is regarded as one of the best ruby frameworks. It was the primary language in developing big projects such as Twitter and helped the language boost the community. Often referred to as “Rails,” Ruby on Rails is a web development framework with an MVC control structure and currently running its 6.1 version. The 16-year-old language has dramatically influenced the web development structures and managing databases, web pages, and other components on a web application.
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More control over enum in Rails 7.1
In Rails 7.1, a new option _instance_methods is introduced, allowing developers to opt-out of the automatic generation of instance methods for enums. When enum is defined with _instance_methods: false, Rails will no longer generate methods like pending?, processed?, etc.
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Ruby on Rails load testing habits
Rails isn't super opinionated about database writes, its mostly left up to developers to discover that for relational DBs you do not want to be doing a bunch of small writes all at once.
That said it specifically has tools to address this that started appearing a few years ago https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/35077
The way my team handles it is to stick Kafka in between whats generating the records (for us, a bunch of web scraping workers) and and a consumer that pulls off the Kafka queue and runs an insert when its internal buffer reaches around 50k rows.
Rails is also looking to add some more direct background type work with https://github.com/basecamp/solid_queue but this is still very new - most larger Rails shops are going to be running a second system and a gem called Sidekiq that pulls jobs out of Redis.
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DHH installing Campfire (37s ONCE #1) [video]
I'm looking forward to see what extractions from this will land on rails. For example: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/50454
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First commits in a Ruby on Rails app
Here is what strict_loading does (source):
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Continuous Deployment with GitHub Actions and Kamal
Kamal is a wonderfully simple way to deploy your applications anywhere. It will also be included by default in Rails 8. Kamal is trivial, but I don’t recommend using it on your development machine.
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What's Coming in Rails 8
Here's the GitHub milestone I've based this article on — https://github.com/rails/rails/milestone/87
- Rails 8 Plan
What are some alternatives?
Audited - Audited (formerly acts_as_audited) is an ORM extension that logs all changes to your Rails models.
Roda - Routing Tree Web Toolkit
Paranoia - acts_as_paranoid for Rails 5, 6 and 7
Hanami - The web, with simplicity.
Logidze - Database changes log for Rails
Sinatra - Classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo)
mongoid-history - Multi-user non-linear history tracking, auditing, undo, redo for mongoid.
Cuba - Rum based microframework for web development.
ActsAsParanoid - ActiveRecord plugin allowing you to hide and restore records without actually deleting them.
CodeBehind Framework - CodeBehind library is a modern backend framework. This library is a programming model based on the MVC structure, which provides the possibility of creating dynamic aspx files in .NET Core and has high serverside independence.
Discard - 🃏🗑 Soft deletes for ActiveRecord done right
Padrino - Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.