Allow `whodunnit` column name to be configurable about draftsman HOT 3 CLOSED

Is this only intended to store a name of who did it? I'm looking at how the whodunnit of draft records could point to the user that initiated the draft_creation. The method current_user does work, but since the whodunnit column is a string, I just get something like #<User:0x007f51605ca860>. Would you recommend changing the column type? Or would you recommend me retrofitting the column as is, override the user_for_draftsman method to make it return some sort of string identifier to the user, then let my app decipher the whodunnit column on read?

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as far as I know this is intended to capture the name (or any other data) about the current user.

I believe this was mired after the paper_trail gem.

You could setup your own method to create the string you need.

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@jakehockey10 @defbyte In paper_trail, I believe the examples record names of people for whodunnit, which I think is lame.

I tend to change whodunnit to an integer and store the user's ID so I can join it if need be. I'd much prefer that the column were named user_id, which is why I opened this issue to have the option of overriding it.

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