ActiveRecord convenience methods and scopes for publishing and finding published, unpublished and returning recent or upcoming items.

Generates attr_accessors that redact certain values in the JSON structure before saving.

Active Record extention to sanitize your inputspec.

Securely stores activerecord model attributes

An ActiveRecord concern that generates scoped sequential IDs for models.

An ActiveRecord concern to automatically generate slug fields.

Attributes marked with the attr_symbol method can be set using strings or symbols, but when accessed will always return symbols.

attr-translatable gem allows attributes of ActiveRecord to be translated.

Rails concern for ActiveRecord attribute translation using PostgreSQL's JSONB datatype.

This gem makes binary uuid attribute easy to use

RecordFilter is a Pure-ruby criteria API for building complex queries in ActiveRecord. It supports queries that are built on the fly as well as named filters that can be added to objects and chained to create complex queries. It also gets rid of the nasty hard-coded SQL that shows up in most ActiveRecord code with a clean API that makes queries simple and intuitive to build.

acts_as_versioned is good. This allows an attribute level rollback instead

Log changes to your models

With gem audit_model you can log all changes to your models.

Auditor allows you to declaratively specify what CRUD operations should be audited and save the audit data to the database.

Track changes on Active Record models based on ActiveSupport::Callbacks and ActiveModel::Dirty

Auditron tracks who changed what on any ActiveRecord model — storing only the fields that changed, not full snapshots. Ships with a chainable query DSL, built-in log retention, a simple actor lambda, and works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. Zero hard dependencies beyond ActiveRecord.

Adds audit tables and triggers for postgres databases

Uses created_by_user_id and updated_by_user_id to store the changes made to a record. This is limited to storing the user who created the record and the last user to update the record.

An unobtrusive ruby authentication library based on ActiveRecord.