# This migration creates the `versions` table, the only schema PT requires. # All other migrations PT provides are optional. class CreateVersions < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.1] # Class names of MySQL adapters. # - `MysqlAdapter` - Used by gems: `mysql`, `activerecord-jdbcmysql-adapter`. # - `Mysql2Adapter` - Used by `mysql2` gem. MYSQL_ADAPTERS = [ "ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::MysqlAdapter", "ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Mysql2Adapter" ].freeze # The largest text column available in all supported RDBMS is # 1024^3 - 1 bytes, roughly one gibibyte. We specify a size # so that MySQL will use `longtext` instead of `text`. Otherwise, # when serializing very large objects, `text` might not be big enough. TEXT_BYTES = 1_073_741_823 def change create_table :versions, versions_table_options do |t| t.string :item_type, item_type_options t.integer :item_id, null: false t.string :event, null: false t.string :whodunnit t.text :object, limit: TEXT_BYTES # Known issue in MySQL: fractional second precision # ------------------------------------------------- # # MySQL timestamp columns do not support fractional seconds unless # defined with "fractional seconds precision". MySQL users should manually # add fractional seconds precision to this migration, specifically, to # the `created_at` column. # (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/fractional-seconds.html) # # MySQL users should also upgrade to rails 4.2, which is the first # version of ActiveRecord with support for fractional seconds in MySQL. # (https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/14359) # t.datetime :created_at end add_index :versions, [:item_type, :item_id] end private # MySQL 5.6 utf8mb4 limit is 191 chars for keys used in indexes. # See https://github.com/airblade/paper_trail/issues/651 def item_type_options opt = { null: false } opt[:limit] = 191 if mysql? opt end def mysql? MYSQL_ADAPTERS.include?(connection.class.name) end # Even modern versions of MySQL still use `latin1` as the default character # encoding. Many users are not aware of this, and run into trouble when they # try to use PaperTrail in apps that otherwise tend to use UTF-8. Postgres, by # comparison, uses UTF-8 except in the unusual case where the OS is configured # with a custom locale. # # - https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-applications.html # - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/multibyte.html # # Furthermore, MySQL's original implementation of UTF-8 was flawed, and had # to be fixed later by introducing a new charset, `utf8mb4`. # # - https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4 # - https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-unicode-utf8mb4.html # def versions_table_options if mysql? { options: "ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_general_ci" } else {} end end end