Loging Active Record save method call in Rails 3 - how

Question

Hi, I'm looking the best way to log some of save method call. It will be save in another database. I need to log model and its attributes, and user model, which should be somehow taken from session. How to make it Rails Way?

Answer 1

this will write a line like this in your log on every save operation:

#<User id: nil, name: "hi", created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>

in the model:

class User <ActiveRecord::Base

before_save :log_attributes

protected
  def log_attributes
    logger.info self.inspect
  end
end