RailsBigBrother

RailsBigBrother lets you log every create, update and destroy on any of your models.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rails_big_brother'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rails_big_brother

Simply add this line in the model you want to log :

big_brother_watch

The default log format is :

"%<big_brother>s;%<user>s;%<controller_info>s;%<class>s;%<id>s;%<action>s;%<args>s"

To define a new format, add this in an initializer :

RailsBigBrother.format = "new_format"

To fill user and controller info, you need to define two methods in your ApplicationController

def big_brother_user
  ''
end

def big_brother_infos
  {}
end

big_brother_user must return a string. big_brother_infos can return a string, an array or a hash.

You can choose which events to log with the on option. For example :

class Example < ActiveRecord::Base
  big_brother_watch on: [:create, :destroy]
end

You can specify attributes to monitor with only :

class Example < ActiveRecord::Base
  big_brother_watch only: [:first, :second]
end

You can also ignore some attributes with ignore :

class Example < ActiveRecord::Base
  big_brother_watch ignore: :third
end

You can choose to log the new value of an updated field with verbose :

class Example < ActiveRecord::Base
  big_brother_watch verbose: :third
end