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Asked: 2026-05-16T22:27:14+00:00

I want to fetch only changed attributes of an object. Is there any method

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I want to fetch only changed attributes of an object. Is there any method available which returns all the updated attributes?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Given there aren’t many specifics in your question, I’m going to assume you’re referring to ActiveRecord objects. To view the changed attributes on so called “Dirty Objects” you can do the following:

    User.changed #=> ["name", "email"]

User.changes #=> { "name" => ["Joe", "Joseph"] }

    There are also methods for each attribute if you need to check specific ones.

    User.name_changed? #=> true

User.name_change #=> ["Joe", "Joseph"]

    More details here:
    http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/3/31/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-dirty-objects

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