Mongoid::Archivable

Moves Mongoid documents to an archive instead of destroying them.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mongoid-archivable'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install mongoid-archivable

In any Mongoid document, do this:

include Mongoid::Archivable

Now a destroy of a document will move the document to an Archive collection, namespaced under the document you're destroying.

You can restore an archive as well. Send the .restore message to it. For now the archived document is retained, but that might change in the future.

user = User.create! name: "Example User"
user.destroy

User.count # => 0
User::Archive.count # => 1

archived_user = User::Archive.last
archived_user.restore

User.count # => 1
User::Archive.count # => 1

By default, the archived documents will be stored in primary client and database. If you want to use different database or client for all archived documents, you can create the following middleware:

# Rails : config/initializers/mongoid_archivable.rb
# Ruby : config/mongoid_archivable.rb

Mongoid::Archivable.configure do |config|
  config.database = "archives"
  config.client = "secondary"
end

But if you only want to use different database or client in spesific Mongoid document, you can use this approach:

class User
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Mongoid::Archive
  archive_in database: 'achives', client: 'secondary'
end

In your mongoid.yml will show like this:

development:
  clients:
    default:
      database: project_development
      hosts:
        - localhost:27017
      options:
        <<: *client_options
    secondary:
      database: archives
      hosts:
        - localhost:27018
      options:
        <<: *client_options

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