Working With Rails

Acts As Draftable

Allows a model to save certain attributes into a smaller drafts table. These are meant to be temporary modifications until the actual model is saved. This is very similar to Acts as Versioned.

This example class will create drafts on the title and body fields of Article:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_draftable :fields => [:title, :body]
end

Here’s a sample workflow:

1. Create your model.

article = Article.new(:title => 'foo', :body => 'bar')

2. Save draft.

article.save_draft

3. Retrieve latest draft.

draft = Article::Draft.find_new(:first, :order => 'updated_at desc')

4. Decide you like the draft, and save it.

article = draft.to_article
article.save

1. notice your draft is now gone Article::Draft.find_new(:first, :order => ‘updated_at desc’)
2. => nil

5. Create a new draft from the saved article

article = Article.find(1) article.title

1. => ‘foo’ article.title = ‘bar’ article.save_draft

6. Load the draft’s attributes over the current attributes without saving

article = Article.find(1) article.title

1. => ‘foo’ article.load_from_draft article.title
2. => ‘bar’

7. Save the draft’s attributes over the current attributes

article = Article.find(1) article.title

1. => ‘foo’ article.save_from_draft article.title
2. => ‘bar’

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