Audited 4.5.0 creating an audit where attribute did not change

[tilo]

We are using audited 4.5.0 with Rails 5.0.6 and Ruby 2.3.5

we get some Audit table entries, recording an attribute change when the value of the attribute did not change...

        :action => "update",
        :audited_changes => "---\nmanager_email:\n- [email protected]\n- [email protected]\n",

Has anyone seen this kind of behavior, and are there any suggestions how to avoid this?

[tbrisker]

Hi @tilo, Is it possible that your model marks the attribute as changed or dirty even when it is not changed? Also, a new version of audited gem, 4.6.0, was released a few days ago, and it includes some improvements to change detection. Is the issue still present in that version?

[Epigene]

I tried updating from 4.5.0 to 4.9.0 for a similar problem (audited reading #changed_attributes, which produces a false positive if same-value assignment (instance.field = instance.field) is performed), and the problem went away.