module VestalVersions::Changes::InstanceMethods

Methods available to versioned ActiveRecord::Base instances in order to manage changes used for version creation.

Public Instance Methods

changes_between(from, to) click to toggle source

Collects an array of changes from a record’s versions between the given range and compiles them into one summary hash of changes. The from and to arguments can each be either a version number, a symbol representing an association proxy method, a string representing a version tag or a version object itself.

# File lib/vestal_versions/changes.rb, line 22
def changes_between(from, to)
  from_number, to_number = versions.number_at(from), versions.number_at(to)
  return {} if from_number == to_number
  chain = versions.between(from_number, to_number).reject(&:initial?)
  return {} if chain.empty?

  backward = from_number > to_number
  backward ? chain.pop : chain.shift unless from_number == 1 || to_number == 1

  chain.inject({}) do |changes, version|
    changes.append_changes!(backward ? version.changes.reverse_changes : version.changes)
  end
end