paper-trail-gem/paper_trail

PaperTrail is a Ruby gem that provides versioning and change tracking for ActiveRecord models. It automatically captures and stores the state of records across create, update, and destroy events, allowing users to view history, reify past states, and query for specific changes. The system supports flexible serialization formats like JSON and YAML, handles complex data types including PostgreSQL arrays and encrypted attributes, and integrates with Rails, RSpec, and Cucumber for testing and request context management.

This period focused on restructuring the PaperTrail codebase into a modular, maintainable architecture with explicit configuration and request-scoped state management. The team modernized the development environment, replaced legacy test infrastructure with RSpec, and introduced a JSON serializer alongside improved framework integrations.

13 changes

This period focused on modernizing PaperTrail's integration with Rails, including restructuring the controller module and introducing a default ActiveRecord Version model. Significant effort was also dedicated to modularizing attribute serialization logic and adding comprehensive test coverage for the new dummy application and various serializers.

25 changes

This period focused on refactoring the internal event handling into a modular architecture and introducing new generators for custom version tables, including support for UUIDs and MySQL compatibility. The work also expanded test coverage for encryption and query filtering, while adding support for the latest Rails versions.

8 changes

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