Tracking/Logging ActiveRecord Callbacks

Question

Is there any way to automatically log everytime an ActiveRecord callback happens? It would help to trace through why certain things are happened when a record has several ca

Answer 1

The easier way is to use the rails native logger methods:

Debugging Rails Applications

Using it like this:

logger.debug "Person attributes hash: #{@person.attributes.inspect}"
logger.info "Processing the request..."
logger.fatal "Terminating application, raised unrecoverable error!!!"

Edit:

To check what was called when an exception ocurred is also interesting to use

logger.error("trace: #{ex.backtrace().join("\n")}")