ruby on rails - Tracking/Logging ActiveRecord Callbacks

Question

Is there any way to automatically log everytime an ActiveRecord callback happens? It would help to trace through why certain things are happened when a record has several callbacks in place.

I'd like to see automated log message that indicate which messages are being called in response to which callbacks, e.g.: before_validation: calling update_capitalization

Answer 1

I just wrote a gem for this.

# Gemfile
gem "rails-callback_log", group: [:development, :test]

• https://github.com/jaredbeck/rails-callback_log
• https://rubygems.org/gems/rails-callback_log