Question

I have an application where there are two types of user currently, Admin and Vendor, and i want to log their activities like

"TestAdmin" viewed transaction
"TestAdmin" added a new vendor
"TestAdmin" edited a Transaction
"TestVendor" added a new Transaction
"TestAdmin" approved Transaction 
"TestAdmin" rejected Transaction 
etc...

where “TestAdmin” is an admin and “TestVendor” is a vendor

But i m not sure what approach i should follow

I m thinking of this

Adding an Activity table in DB with following fields

user_id 
browser
session_id
ip_address
action
params

and call

before_filter :record_activity

to record all activities

but not sure how to create messages like above

Also i want to figure out if any error occurs and when and why, so for this i take browser fields to figure out whether code doesn’t work in IE etc. but this is only one error track field.

Please help and guide to some nice way to accomplish this.

Thanks

Answer 1

Ok this is what i did…

First create table

create_table "activity_logs", :force => true do |t|
    t.string "user_id"
    t.string "browser"
    t.string "ip_address"
    t.string "controller"
    t.string "action"
    t.string "params"
    t.string "note"
    t.datetime "created_at"
    t.datetime "updated_at"
end

created function in application controller

def record_activity(note)
    @activity = Activity_Log.new
    @activity.user = current_user
    @activity.note = note
    @activity.browser = request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
    @activity.ip_address = request.env['REMOTE_ADDR']
    @activity.controller = controller_name 
    @activity.action = action_name 
    @activity.params = params.inspect
    @activity.save
end

then call above function from any controller needed
like this….

class AccountsController < ApplicationController
      load_and_authorize_resource

      # POST /accounts
      # POST /accounts.json
     def create
       @account = Account.new(params[:account])
       respond_to do |format|
       if @account.save
        record_activity("Created new account") #This will call application controller  record_activity
        format.js { head :ok }
      else
       format.js { render json: @account.errors, :error => true, :success => false }
      end
    end
  end

Hence problem solved……

Thanks all for all their help….