Callbacks not triggered when used in combination with activerecord-import

[vsolari]

Currently I use the 'activerecord-import' gem in some functionalities, when the insertion is done through "import", the "public_activity" does not insert the activity. Is there a way to record the movement of large volumes of data?

[ur5us]

This is not a bug in PublicActivity but a tradeoff of using activerecord-import which is documented here: https://github.com/zdennis/activerecord-import#callbacks. It’s the same with counter caches, also documented a bit further up: https://github.com/zdennis/activerecord-import#counter-cache

As far as I can tell, you have 2 options:

• either you configure the #import to trigger the callback (for each record!) https://github.com/public-activity/public_activity/blob/73978cf5495c5ccc781513a818a5bcd5f8ecca9b/lib/public_activity/actions/creation.rb#L9
• or you manually create PublicActivity data for imported objects using yet another import call. The mentioned links provide some strategies and possible workarounds.

[ur5us]

https://github.com/zdennis/activerecord-import/issues/773