Delete Paranoid Records
The ActsAsParanoid gem provides soft delete functionality to ActiveRecord
objects in Rails. You can enhance a model with its functionality like so:
This gem hijacks ActiveRecord
's standard destroy
and destroy!
functionality. If you call either of these methods, instead of the record being deleted from the database, it's deleted_at
column is updated from nil
to the current timestamp. Resulting in a soft deleted record.
If you call destroy
or destroy!
a second time (i.e. on a record that has already been soft deleted), it will be actually deleted from the database. Alternatively, you can call destroy_fully!
from the beginning to skip the soft delete.
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