XID

Adds ability to ActiveRecord to retrieve the current transaction ID. This can be used to as metadata for the purposes of grouping operations performed on many records across many tables. In particular I had its usage with auditing libraries in mind.

Currently supported adapters:

• PostgreSQL
• OracleEnhanced (untested, help!)
• Mysql, Mysql2 (help! user needs PROCESS privileges and requires a query returning/modifying records before you can get an id!!!)

Adapters with no support for retreiving a transaction's ID:

• Sqlite
• Sqlite3

Please fork and add functionality for other databases.

NOTE: You can forget about the native transactions and use the sythentic transaction id. See the usage.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'xid'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install xid 

Simply call this to get the current ID:

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.transaction_id

Also, in a transaction block if you provide a block argument

Model.transaction do |transaction_id|
  puts transaction_id
end

To avoid issues or transaction support of your adapter you can just use a synthetic UUID as the transaction ID. In an initializer:

XID.use_synthetic_id!

An UUID will be generated on request from the UUIDTools gem. This id is the same for the whole transaction, including any savepoints.

You must have the ActiveRecord test suite databases set up. The gem uses these to connect to for each adapter's specs.

See ActiveRecord's RUNNING_UNIT_TESTS

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request