ActsAsScribe

Based in the plugin: http://github.com/linkingpaths/acts_as_scribe/tree/master

A simple plugin that allows to keep history records of the models to models activities. Common uses could be user's wall, public timeline portlets, etc...

Scribe (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia): "A scribe was traditionally a person who could read and write. This usually indicated secretarial and administrative duties such as dictation and keeping business, judicial, and history records for kings, nobles, temples, and cities."

Resources

Install

• Run the following command:

script/plugin install git://github.com/linkingpaths/acts_as_scribe.git

• Generate the tables via the given generator:

script/generate acts_as_scribe_migration

• And finally...

rake db:migrate

Usage

• Make your ActiveRecord model acts as scribe.

  class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base    
    record_activity_of :user
  end

• If you want to record activities not related to any specific model just use record_activities :activity in your user model:

  class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    record_activities [:featured_on_home, :logged_in, :logged_out]
  end

Or

  class Blog < ActiveRecord::Base
    record_activities_of :comments
  end

More

http://github.com/linkingpaths/acts_as_scribe http://github.com/linkingpaths/acts_as_scribe/wikis

Copyright (c) 2009 Carakan, released under the MIT license