lukewendling-expressive_record 0.2.0 → 0.3.0

data/CHANGELOG

@@ -4,4 +4,8 @@ init release. still working out the bugs.
 
 2008-11-17 - 0.2.0
 ==========
-ready to play.
+ready to play.
+
+2008-11-24 - 0.3.0
+==========
+before_update callback now works as expected in subclasses

data/README.rdoc

@@ -42,6 +42,20 @@ express_changes adds a before_update callback to your model that inserts changes
     end
   end
   
+If using a before_update callback in subclasses, be sure to call 'super' as needed:
+
+  class A
+    # a before_update callback is auto-magically added
+    express_changes
+  end
+  
+  class A < B
+    def before_update
+      self.status = 'New' # do this before auditing
+      super # now insert changes into audit log
+    end
+  end
+  
 == Limitations
 * the current implementation assumes that all belongs_to foreign keys use Rails conventional names, like user_id or status_id. if you are connecting to a legacy db with fk's like customerID or whatever, this won't work.
 

data/Rakefile

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'
 require 'echoe'
 
-Echoe.new('expressive_record', '0.2.0') do |p|
+Echoe.new('expressive_record', '0.3.0') do |p|
   p.description    = "Add meaningful names for belongs_to associations to Rails 2.1 model object dirty changes to help with rolling your own history/audit logger."
   p.url			       = "http://github.com/lukewendling/expressive_record"
   p.author          = "Luke Wendling"

data/expressive_record.gemspec

@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = %q{expressive_record}
-  s.version = "0.2.0"
+  s.version = "0.3.0"
 
   s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 1.2") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
   s.authors = ["Luke Wendling"]
-  s.date = %q{2008-11-18}
+  s.date = %q{2008-11-24}
   s.description = %q{Add meaningful names for belongs_to associations to Rails 2.1 model object dirty changes to help with rolling your own history/audit logger.}
   s.email = %q{luke@lukewendling.com}
   s.extra_rdoc_files = ["CHANGELOG", "lib/expressive_record.rb", "README.rdoc"]

data/lib/expressive_record.rb

@@ -3,19 +3,20 @@ module ExpressiveRecord
     base.extend ClassMethods
   end
 
-  # convention: the has_many association is named, i.e. ticket_changes, for model Ticket
-  def expressify(has_many_assoc = nil)
-    ActiveRecord::Base.transaction do
-      self.changes.each do |attr, values|
-        valuefied = valuefy(attr, values)
-        assoc_name = has_many_assoc || "#{self.class.to_s.downcase}_changes"
-        assoc = self.send(assoc_name.to_sym)
-        assoc.create(:attribute_type => attr, :old_value => valuefied[0], :new_value => valuefied[1])
+  private
+  
+    # convention: the has_many association is named, i.e. ticket_changes, for model Ticket
+    def expressify(has_many_assoc = nil)
+      ActiveRecord::Base.transaction do
+        self.changes.each do |attr, values|
+          valuefied = valuefy(attr, values)
+          assoc_name = has_many_assoc || "#{self.class.to_s.downcase}_changes"
+          assoc = self.send(assoc_name.to_sym)
+          assoc.create(:attribute_type => attr, :old_value => valuefied[0], :new_value => valuefied[1])
+        end
       end
     end
-  end
-
-  private
+  
   #    find association's meaningful value (i.e. user.name instead of user id)
     def valuefy(attr, values, assoc_attr = :name)
   #      TODO: is there a better way to determine if an attr is an association
@@ -29,9 +30,7 @@ module ExpressiveRecord
 
   module ClassMethods
     def express_changes(has_many_assoc = nil)
-      before_update do |record|
-        record.expressify has_many_assoc
-      end
+      define_method(:before_update) { expressify has_many_assoc }
     end
   end
 end

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: lukewendling-expressive_record
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  version: 0.2.0
+  version: 0.3.0
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Luke Wendling
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2008-11-18 00:00:00 -08:00
+date: 2008-11-24 00:00:00 -08:00
 default_executable: 
 dependencies: []