public_activity
A Ruby gem for tracking model changes and creating activity feeds in Rails applications, similar to GitHub's public activity.
What is public_activity?
PublicActivity is a Ruby gem that provides easy activity tracking for ActiveRecord, Mongoid, and MongoMapper models in Rails 6.1+. It records model changes and allows developers to present those activities to users in a feed format, similar to how GitHub displays public activity.
Rails developers building applications that need to track and display user activities, such as social networks, project management tools, or content platforms with activity feeds.
Developers choose PublicActivity for its convention-over-configuration approach, multi-ORM support, and built-in view helpers, making it simple to add activity tracking without extensive custom code.
Overview
Easy activity tracking for models - similar to Github's Public Activity
Use Cases
Best For
- Adding activity feeds to Rails applications, like user notifications or timelines.
- Tracking CRUD operations on models for auditing or user visibility.
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