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Choosing the Right Audit Trail Approach in Ruby


The Ruby ecosystem offers a wide range of tools for building an audit trail, each with its pros and cons. So, which one is the best choice?

To make logging more reliable and improve internal controls, teams may want to disable production console access and build workflows for running only pre-approved scripts. Starting with Ruby on Rails version 7, previously with the Marginalia gem, it is also possible to pass custom application context via ActiveSupport::CurrentAttributes with ActiveRecord logs. Depending on the use case, it might be required to clean up the logs, parse them, and save them in some data storage in a more structured format that allows quick lookups with filters.

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