animator

Animator

Inspired by the elegance of PaperTrail, Animator is a cleanly namespaced ActiveRecord plugin that hooks into the existing model life-cycle allowing you to to restore (Animable#reanimate), query (Animable.inanimate), and inspect (Animable#divine) destroyed objects including associations without the tedium and ugliness of default scopes, monkey-patched methods, and complex callbacks.

Getting Started

Animator is opinionated software that protects every model in the application right out of the box.

Add it to your Gemfile and run the bundle command.

gem 'animator'

Once the gem is installed, run the animator:install generator to create the necessary migration and default initializer.

rails g animator:install

Note: To selectively enable Animator, delete the initializer in config/initializers/animator.rb and include Animator::Animable on the desired models manually.

Finally, the database must be migrated to create the eraminhos table before Animator will work properly.

rake db:migrate

Note: In the very unlikely event that eraminhos needs to be preserved for use in the application, Animator may be configured to use an alternative table name by editing the migration and appending Animator::Eraminho.table_name = 'alternative_table_name_for_eraminhos' to the initializer.