Hi All,
I’m looking for the best way to add some lightweight versioning to my ActiveRecord model.
Long story short, I work on an image hosting site, where each ActiveRecord of a resource contains some description fields and links to attachments. Users submit resources, and they are reviewed by admin before made available to the public. Once an image is made public, the original author can make changes to the resource, but that change needs to be reviewed before it can be made public again.
The problem is, we don’t want to take down a resource once it goes live just because the author decides to submit some edits. Instead, we want the ability to continue showing old version of the resource on the live site, during this edit/review stage. So, the edits need to be saved somewhere else.
I looked into using versioning plugin like PaperTrail, but it seems too heavy handed. An alternative approach is to duplicate all fields in the resource, so the edits are stored in the duplicate fields; but this doesn’t seem like an elegant solution. A third possibility is to create a temporary resource (perhaps even of a different type) just to hold the values being edited, and copy those values back to the main resource once edits are approved. This still has some complexity, but I’m leaning toward the third approach.
Any ideas for better way of handling this problem?
Thanks,
Yi