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Working through the excellent rails tutorial by Michael Hartl, somewhere around the end chapter 9 I came across some unusual behavior of (what I suspect) Ruby/Rails. My data, which is committed to a MySQL database, kept disappearing.
Whenever a change was made to any of the spec or controller files, all my users would be gone 🙁
To get a grip on who the culprit is, I went off to create some triggers who would log what happened and when:

CREATE TABLE logger
( logger_id         INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY
, logger_event      VARCHAR(50)
, logger_table      VARCHAR(50)
, logger_instring   VARCHAR(100)
, logger_outstring  VARCHAR(100)
, creation_date     DATETIME
, last_update_date  DATETIME) ENGINE=MyISAM;

DELIMITER $
CREATE TRIGGER trg_users_insert
AFTER INSERT ON users
FOR EACH ROW begin
INSERT INTO logger VALUES ( null
           ,'insert'
           ,'users'
           , new.email
           , null
           , new.created_at
           , null );
END$

CREATE TRIGGER trg_users_update
AFTER update ON users
FOR EACH ROW begin
INSERT INTO logger VALUES ( null
           ,'update'
           ,'users'
           , old.email
           , new.email
           , old.updated_at
           , new.updated_at );	
END$

CREATE TRIGGER trg_users_delete
before delete ON users
FOR EACH ROW begin
INSERT INTO logger VALUES ( null
           ,'delete'
           ,'users'
           , old.email
           , null
           , null
           , current_timestamp );	
END$

Not the most sophisticated piece of code ever, but let’s see if it does the trick…