audited on application-record level disturbs associated audits

[chmich]

Hi,

regarding to associated audits i have this setup for a polymorphic association and it's working well:

class Memo < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :memo_writer, polymorphic: true, required: true
  audited associated_with: :memo_writer
end

class Employee < ApplicationRecord
  audited
  has_many :memos, as: :memo_writer
  has_associated_audits
end

Problem

Now i want to exclude all created_at and updated_at on application record level for the whole database:

class ApplicationRecord < ActiveRecord::Base
  audited except: [:created_at, :updated_at]
end

At the point there is placed any audited on the super class (ApplicationRecord) audited doesn't fillup the columns associated_id and associated_type on the audits table and associated audits are no more working.

Suggestion

it'd be fine if there'd be the option for setting defaults that can be overriden in the model.

[danielmorrison]

Yes, audited isn't intended to be called multiple times that way.

However, those particular columns also aren't meant to be audited:

audited/lib/audited.rb

Line 41 in 548cbe9

@ignored_attributes = %w[lock_version created_at updated_at created_on updated_on]

Are you seeing a situation where they are getting audited?

[danielmorrison]

If you have other columns you want to exclude, you can use non_audited_columns = [:first_name, :last_name] in a model.

[chmich]

Thanks @danielmorrison good to know that and for me thats answered