acts_as_audited

acts_as_audited is an ActiveRecord extension that logs all changes to your models in an audits table.

The purpose of this fork is to store both the previous values and the changed value, making each audit record selfcontained.

Installation

• acts_as_audited can be installed as a gem:

  # config/environment.rb
  config.gem 'acts_as_audited', :lib => false, :source => 'http://gemcutter.org'
  

  or a plugin:

  script/plugin install git://github.com/collectiveidea/acts_as_audited.git
  

• Generate the migration

  script/generate audited_migration add_audits_table
  rake db:migrate
  

Usage

Declare acts_as_audited on your models:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_audited :except => [:password, :mistress]
end

Within a web request, will automatically record the user that made the change if your controller has a current_user method.

To record a user in the audits outside of a web request, you can use as_user:

Audit.as_user(user) do
  # Perform changes on audited models
end

Caveats

If your model declares attr_accessible after acts_as_audited, you need to set :protect to false. acts_as_audited uses attr_protected internally to prevent malicious users from unassociating your audits, and Rails does not allow both attr_protected and attr_accessible. It will default to false if attr_accessible is called before acts_as_audited, but needs to be explicitly set if it is called after.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_audited :protect => false
  attr_accessible :name
end

12/21/10:

There have been no tests written for any of the new features. There’s just been no time.

Compatability

acts_as_audited works with Rails 2.1 or later.

Getting Help

Join the mailing list for getting help or offering suggestions:

http://groups.google.com/group/acts_as_audited

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome. Checkout the latest code on GitHub:

http://github.com/collectiveidea/acts_as_audited

Please include tests with your patches. There are a few gems required to run the tests:

$ gem install multi_rails
$ gem install thoughtbot-shoulda jnunemaker-matchy --source http://gems.github.com

Make sure the tests pass against all versions of Rails since 2.1:

$ rake test:multi_rails:all

Please report bugs or feature suggestions on GitHub:

http://github.com/collectiveidea/acts_as_audited/issues