User must exist error

[ramaboo]

Paper trail 14 seems to break in ways I was not expecting in environments without users. Given a model

class Something
has_paper_trail
end

Doing something simple like Something.destroy in console results in a User must exist error. This means any changes to the Something model in console or Sidekiq fail even though Something.valid?. For destroy this will cause the original Something to be destroyed but none of its dependent relationships :( A far better way would be to set user to 0 or nil rather than just dying.

[BagpipesJohnson]

I think that's why it's recommended to set whodunnit for whoever is running the console: https://github.com/paper-trail-gem/paper_trail/wiki/Setting-whodunnit-in-the-rails-console

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