Log user activities in ROR

Question

I have an application where there are two types of user currently, Admin and Vendor, and i want to log their activities like

\"TestAdmin\" viewed transaction
\"T         


        

Answer 1

I have to say the answer of @Anil D is obviously coupled. It's OK for small projects, but it will cause serious problems (developing, debugging, maintaining problems) as your projects grows bigger and bigger.

I prefer audited: (https://github.com/collectiveidea/audited), which is a simple & clean solution aiming to user activities only. It supports Rails3 and associations.

Answer 2

There are couple of plugins in rails to implement this kind of functionality model-wise. I used acts_as_audited which fulfilled my requirement.

I got to know about one more record_activities, but don't know more about it. Hope it may help to you!

Answer 3

I think you should set model function where it catches the action like after_save ,after update and all , if your model is Transaction for the logs table fields can be

user_id,
model_name,
action,
ip_address,
session_id,
params

Answer 4

I would suggest you to have these fields on your "Activity" DB:

model = name of the model ex. "Vendor", "Transaction"
user_id = id of user
belongsTo = id of user that own the action/created the action etc..
action = name of the action

and on your "Activity Model" add a function

log_activity(model, user_id, belongsTo, action)
 log = Activity.new
 log.model = model
 log.user_id = user_id
 log.belongsTo = belongsTo
 log.action = action
 log.save
end

then in you other models that you want to log add callbacks like:
before_create :log
before_update :log
before_destroy :log


def log
  Activity.log_activity(self.class, self.user_id, self.belongsTo, self.action)
  # assuming you have this fields on you forms
end

Answer 5

Ok this is what i did...

First create table

create_table "activity_logs", :force => true do |t|
    t.string "user_id"
    t.string "browser"
    t.string "ip_address"
    t.string "controller"
    t.string "action"
    t.string "params"
    t.string "note"
    t.datetime "created_at"
    t.datetime "updated_at"
end

created function in application controller

def record_activity(note)
    @activity = Activity_Log.new
    @activity.user = current_user
    @activity.note = note
    @activity.browser = request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
    @activity.ip_address = request.env['REMOTE_ADDR']
    @activity.controller = controller_name 
    @activity.action = action_name 
    @activity.params = params.inspect
    @activity.save
end

then call above function from any controller needed like this....

class AccountsController < ApplicationController
      load_and_authorize_resource

      # POST /accounts
      # POST /accounts.json
     def create
       @account = Account.new(params[:account])
       respond_to do |format|
       if @account.save
        record_activity("Created new account") #This will call application controller  record_activity
        format.js { head :ok }
      else
       format.js { render json: @account.errors, :error => true, :success => false }
      end
    end
  end

Hence problem solved......

Thanks all for all their help....