PaperTrail

PaperTrail is a Ruby on Rails gem providing version tracking for ActiveRecord models. It stores every change to records, enabling auditing, undo/redo of updates, and historical reconstruction of model states. Designed for traceability, compliance, and temporal querying across Rails applications.

Features

Automatic record of create/update/destroy events
has_paper_trail for seamless model integration
Query models by version timestamp or change fields
Restore models to previous states or revert changes
Configurable metadata (who made change, why, etc.)
Support for custom versioning strategies and associations

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MIT License

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

Ruby

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Registered

2025-07-31

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