Version table will use uuid as primary key type if uuid flag is set

[Nuzair46]

Version table will use uuid as primary key type if uuid flag is specified on migration generation

Fix for #1402

followup to #1374

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[jaredbeck]

Thanks Nuzair, looks good. Please add a changelog entry under Unreleased -> Fixed.

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[scottengelhardt]

@jaredbeck @Nuzair46 Any updates on this? PaperTrail isn't usable without UUIDs as the item ID

[Nuzair46]

@jaredbeck Can we get this merged?
@dudescott , Papertrail will work with uuid now. This PR is just to update the version table to use uuid.
item_id will support uuid since #1374

[scottengelhardt]

Doing bundle exec rails generate paper_trail:install [--uuid] doesn't change the item_id from bigint to uuid as mentioned in the readme

[Nuzair46]

It will change to "string" type and which will allow for uuid. I don't remember why it was changed to string instead of uuid. But the change is working for me.
Im not sure if bundle exec rails generate paper_trail:install [--uuid] will update the type in already existing tables. It should be used to generate the migration during the initial setup. In this case, It should work by creating a migration to update the type of item_id to string for already existing tables.

[scottengelhardt]

Unfortunately it doesn't generate a string column and manually changing doesn't work. Regardless of the [--uuid] flag, the column stays as bigint. I'm using Version 13 or PaperTrail, 2.7.1 of Ruby and 5.2 of active record.

[scottengelhardt]

Got it. The brackets are not valid. Doing bundle exec rails generate paper_trail:install --uuid worked while bundle exec rails generate paper_trail:install [--uuid] did not.

[Nuzair46]

Yea. The documentation needs to be updated so that the commands are shown properly. It is a bit confusing right now.

[Nuzair46]

@jaredbeck this pr has been open for months. can it be merged?

[jaredbeck]

Doing bundle exec rails generate paper_trail:install --uuid worked while bundle exec rails generate paper_trail:install [--uuid] did not.

For future reference, the brackets indicate optionality. This is a documentation convention going back 30+ years.

[jaredbeck]

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