Migrate from papertrail?

[jemminger]

I currently use papertrail, and I want to delete its massively verbose table, but I don't want to lose the history.

Is there a way I can migrate my papertrail versions over to logidze?

[palkan]

We don't have an out-of-the-box support for that.

The only complex part here is to convert papertrail history to Logdize format.

And then you can just do record.update_column(:log_data, converted_log).

[seanlinsley]

BTW, PaperTrail now supports dropping the object column, which reduces the table size by about half. Here's a migration you can use: paper-trail-gem/paper_trail#1099 (comment)

I considered Logidze as an alternative but the fact that all history is lost when a record is deleted (#61) isn't acceptable for long-lived Rails projects. For a greenfield project it's probably simple enough to disallow deletions.

[bf4]

Also noting deletion issue #61 (comment)