When I called whodunnit with papertrail on a version I usually want the user instance.

We are going to add a monkey patch in config/intializers

# config/initializers/paper_trail_monkey_patch.rb
module PaperTrail
  class Version
    def user
      User.find(whodunnit) if whodunnit
    end
  end
end

Now whenever you want the user of a version just call user.

@version.user

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