rails_vault

Simple and easy to add settings, preferences and so on to any model. See an example.

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Installation

bundle add rails_vault
rails generate rails_vault:install
rails db:migrate

Usage

Generate a vault:

rails generate vault MODEL::VAULT_NAME [field:type field:type]

Use a built-in template:

rails generate vault User::Preferences --template=preferences

Available templates:

Template	Description
preferences	Timezone, locale, date/time format, UI density, hotkeys
notification_settings	Email/push/SMS toggles, frequency, quiet hours
feature_flags	Boolean flags for A/B testing and beta features
email_sequence	State tracking for drip/welcome email sequences

Example (manual fields):

rails generate vault User::Preferences \
  time_zone:string \
  datetime_format:string \
  hotkeys_disabled:boolean

This will:

1. Create a vault class at app/models/users/preferences.rb
2. Add vault :preferences to your User model

Define vault attributes

class User::Preferences < Vault
  vault_attribute :time_zone, :string, default: "UTC"
  vault_attribute :datetime_format, :string, default: "dd-mm-yyyy"
  vault_attribute :hotkeys_disabled, :boolean, default: false
end

Read and write values

user = User.first
user.create_preferences # => User::Preferences Create (6.3ms)  INSERT INTO "rails_vaults" …
user.preferences.time_zone # => "UTC"
user.preferences.hotkeys_disabled? # => false

user.preferences.update time_zone: "Amsterdam", hotkeys_disabled: true

user.preferences.time_zone # => "Amsterdam"
user.preferences.hotkeys_disabled? # => true

user.preferences.vault_attributes # => ["time_zone", "datetime_format", "hotkeys_disabled"]

Contributing

This project uses Standard for formatting Ruby code. Please make sure to run be standardrb before submitting pull requests. Run tests via rails test.

License

rails_vault is released under the MIT License.