tomriley-previous_changes 0.0.1

data/README

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+Very simple Rails plugin that adds the method 'previous_changes' to ActiveRecord objects that can be called after saving a model object to fetch what the method 'changes' would have returned just before the save occurred (a hash from attribute name to a pair of values - the old attribute value and the new attribute value).
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com (you only have to do this once)
+$ sudo gem install tomriley-previous_changes
+
+Then add a dependency to your rails environment.rb:
+
+config.gem 'tomriley-previous_changes', :lib => 'previous_changes', :version => '0.0.1'

data/init.rb

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+require 'previous_changes'

data/lib/previous_changes.rb

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+module PreviousChanges
+  module Extensions
+    def self.included(base)
+      base.class_eval do
+        after_validation_on_update :save_changes
+      end
+    end
+    
+    def save_changes
+      @previous_changes = changes
+    end
+    
+    def previous_changes
+      @previous_changes
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+ActiveRecord::Base.class_eval { include PreviousChanges::Extensions }

metadata

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+--- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
+name: tomriley-previous_changes
+version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+  version: 0.0.1
+platform: ruby
+authors: 
+- Tom Riley
+autorequire: 
+bindir: bin
+cert_chain: []
+
+date: 2008-12-24 00:00:00 -08:00
+default_executable: 
+dependencies: 
+- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency 
+  name: activerecord
+  version_requirement: 
+  version_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
+    requirements: 
+    - - ">="
+      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+        version: "0"
+    version: 
+description: An ActiveRecord plugin that provides a previous_changes method to fetch changes made during the last save operation
+email: tom@smallroomsoftware.com
+executables: []
+
+extensions: []
+
+extra_rdoc_files: []
+
+files: 
+- README
+- init.rb
+- lib/previous_changes.rb
+has_rdoc: false
+homepage: http://github.com/tomriley/previous_changes/
+post_install_message: 
+rdoc_options: []
+
+require_paths: 
+- lib
+required_ruby_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
+  requirements: 
+  - - ">="
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+      version: "0"
+  version: 
+required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
+  requirements: 
+  - - ">="
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+      version: "0"
+  version: 
+requirements: []
+
+rubyforge_project: 
+rubygems_version: 1.2.0
+signing_key: 
+specification_version: 2
+summary: An ActiveRecord plugin that provides a previous_changes method to fetch changes made during the last save operation
+test_files: []
+