Github behavior how? about public_activity HOT 8 CLOSED

Currently in my own projects I access Activity model directly like this (my example of recording activity of commenting):

PublicActivity::Activity.create :key => "activity.post.commented_by", 
                                                  :owner => current_user, :trackable => @post, 
                                                  :parameters => {
                                                    :summary => truncate(@post.content,:length => 30),    #short summary of the contests of post
                                                    :author_id => @post.author.id, 
                                                    :content => truncate(@comment.comment, :length => 30),  #short summary of the comment text
                                                    :author_name => @post.author.name, 
                                                    :name => current_user.name, 
                                                    :id => current_user.id
                                                  }

I store everything needed to create links and content in :parameters, so no additional JOINs are used.

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Does that answer your question?

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@pokonski Thanks mate, it does partly :-) In the github example there is a reference to the parent object (github repo). How do you handle that in the above example? And I guess you do more when you render the activities?

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I simply inject the post_id in the html snippet to create HTML link. This is quite ugly so I'll try to think of something better. I don't think adding another polymorphic relation just for this case is the way to go. Will keep you informed on my thoughts about it. If you can come up with a solution I'd gladly consider it!

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Where will I use the code you pasted? In a after_save callback, or in an observer? Or some other better place?

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@computeus sorry for the late reply, but the code simply goes wherever you want it to be. I put it in controllers.

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@bjensen in the current 0.4.0-wip branch we made a feature that lets you create views for activities to display them, giving you a much bigger control over what you want to display. This also gives you the possibility to find the parent through associations.

It is now mentioned in the README.md => https://github.com/pokonski/public_activity/blob/0.4.0-wip/README.md, section "Activity views".

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@computeus Keep in mind that you probably want to create an activity after you validate that the user input is correct. With commented_by, for example, when the comment is at least 10 characters long.

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