AuditLoggable is a Rails plugin gem that logs changes to your models. AuditLoggable can also record who made those changes.
AuditLoggable is inspired by Audited. However AuditLoggable logs to a JSONL file instead of RDB table.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'audit_loggable'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install audit_loggable

# config/initializers/audit_loggable.rb
AuditLoggable.configure do |config|
  if Rails.env.test?
    config.auditing_enabled = false
  end
  config.audit_log_path = Rails.root.join("log", "audits.log")
  config.audit_log_shift_age = "daily"
end

Options

class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
  extend AuditLoggable::Extension
end

Active AuditLoggable in your model

class Post < ApplicationRecord
  log_audit
end

if you need to except columns by audit logging, specify except option as follow:

class Post < ApplicationRecord
  log_audit except: %w[foo bar]
end

if you need to record changes but not their values by audit logging, specify redacted option as follow:

class Post < ApplicationRecord
  log_audit redacted: %w[foo bar]
end

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  around_action AuditLoggable::Sweeper.new(current_user_methods: %i[current_user])
end

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/vividgarden/audit_loggable. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the AuditLoggable project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.