Computing Eloquent Model Deltas

Computing the differences or deltas between Eloquent models is a common
task in many data oriented apps. The easiest way that I have found out how to do so is below:

// This is assumed to be in \App\YourModel

/**
 * @param \App\YourModel $model
 *
 * @return array
 */
public function delta(\App\YourModel $model)
{
    // array_diff() is an easy way to produce deltas
    $baseline = $model->attributesToArray();
    $possiblyChanged = $this->attributesToArray();

    /*
    * $baseline = ['test' => 500, 'not_changed' => 5]
    * $possiblyChanged = ['test' => 700, 'not_changed' => 5]
    */


    /*
    * $delta == ['test' => 700]
    */
    $delta = array_diff($possiblyChanged, $baseline);


    // Here I unset possible changes that I don't care about
    unset($delta['id']);
    unset($delta['created_at']);
    unset($delta['updated_at']);

    return $delta;
}