On Aug 22, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Gabriel Sobrinho wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> What do you think about tracking habtm changes?
>
> Apparently we can't do that because when you change a habtm association it is
> changed immediately on database instead of waiting the save call (not sure
> why and the problem may not be because of that).
>
> Current behaviour:
>
> profile.roles_ids
> => []
>
> profile.update_attributes(:name => nil, :roles_ids => [...])
> => false
>
> profile.changes
> { "name" => ['Admin', nil] }
>
>
> Expected behaviour:
>
> profile.roles_ids
> => []
>
> profile.update_attributes(:name => nil, :roles_ids => [...])
> => false
>
> profile.changes
> { "name" => ['Admin', nil], :roles_ids => [[], [...]] }
>
>
>
> Giving some problem context, I have an application that need to audit almost
> every change and I can track everything using the changes method but habtm
> changes.
>
> We can write a solution like storing the initial state of roles_ids in an
> after_initialize callback on the model and comparing it on a after_save but I
> was thinking in a more "native" solution.
>
>
> What do you think?
Some quick thoughts:
* using the _ids= method on has_many doesn't show up in changes either
* this could get really expensive if you have a lot of rows on the other end of
the HABTM, since you cache the complete list of IDs in memory
--Matt Jones
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