Paranoia is a re-implementation of acts_as_paranoid for Rails 5, 6, and 7, using much, much, much less code. You would use either plugin / gem if you wished that when you called destroy on an Active Record object that it didn't actually destroy it, but just "hid" the record. Paranoia does this by setting a deleted_at field to the current time when you destroy a record, and hides it by scoping all queries on your model to only include records which do not have a deleted_at field.

Allows marking ActiveRecord objects as discarded, and provides scopes for filtering.

Check the home page for more in-depth information.

Active Record (~>3.2) plugin which allows you to hide and restore records without actually deleting them. Check its GitHub page for more in-depth information.

Don't delete your records, move them to a different table. Like acts_as_paranoid, but doesn't mess with your SQL queries.

Never Lose Data. Rather than deleting rows this sets Record#deleted_at and gives you all the scopes you need to work with your data.

An ActiveRecord plugin for atomic archiving and unarchiving of object trees. Inspired by ActsAsParanoid and PermanentRecord

Safe destroy for ActiveRecord.

Explicit soft deletion for ActiveRecord via deleted_at and default scope.

Rails plugin that provides the ability to soft delete models

Typical paranoid gem built for Rails 4 and with the minimum code needed to satisfy acts_as_paranoid's API

paranoid models for rails 4

Rails model versioning with the power of uni-temporal inherited tables

Enable soft delete of ActiveRecord records. Based off defunct ActsAsParanoid and IsParanoid