Soft Delete

In a production app, you should probably never really delete anything.

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A soft-delete marks a record as deleted, and keeps it in the database for historical reference.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "soft_delete-workbar", require: "soft_delete"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install soft_delete-workbar

Safely "delete" records from your database without losing them permanently.

• Add SoftDelete to a model

  class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
    include SoftDelete
  end
  

• Add a deleted_at column to the model's database table

  rails g migration AddSoftDeleteToMyModels deleted_at:timestamp
  

• Safely call MyModel#delete without losing the record forever

Please see the SoftDelete module and the associated tests for a description of the methods that will be added to your model.

• .not_deleted - records without a deleted_at timestamp
• .deleted - records with a deleted_at timestamp
• #delete - set the deleted_at timestamp
• #delete! - delete the record from the database
• #destroy - set the deleted_at timestamp, and run callbacks
• #destroy! - delete the record from the database, and run callbacks
• #restore - set the deleted_at timestamp to nil

It will be necessary to exclude deleted records when querying the model. Use the not_deleted scope that now exists on the model.

class MyModelsController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @my_models = MyModel.not_deleted
  end
end

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/workbar-dev/soft_delete.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.