Working With Rails

Hi experts!

I am a rails newbie struggling w/ this observer issue. I have an observer I want to use for audits.

I have this at the tail end of my environment.rb

AuditObserver.instance

puts “after instantiation #{AuditObserver.instance}”

AuditObserver.instance.observed_classes.each {|x| puts x.name }

All of these appear to work correctly. The right model classes are in the output.

However, my observer doesn’t fire at all. Every few runs I’ve seen it fire occasionally, but I am unable to find a pattern. Obviously this is not enough information, but I am not even sure how or what to look for. Any help or direction is appreciated. I am at a total loss.

Some highlights about the observer. It is observing multiple models and it is calling Audit.create (where Audit is another model object that stores the audit)

And one more thing. This started happening after I added the acts_as_soft_deletable plugin, which was the reason I added the AuditObserver.instance to the bottom of my environment.rb and didn’t use config.active_record.observers (which was working fine). I am on rails 2.0.2 w/ Ruby 1.8.3

Vijay