Re: ANNOUNCE: act_as_soft_deletable - new rails plugin for soft deleting / disabling ActiveRecord models

On May 16, 1:13 pm, Danimal <fightonfightw...@...> wrote:
> If you define your "Deleted" tables in a migration, why not build it
> so that any future migrations would automatically adjust the deleted
> tables?

Yeah, that's a good idea. I did something similar with the
update_columns class method, but your way is definitely slicker. One
thing makes me a little uncomfortable though. If the migration drops a
column, and it automatically gets dropped from the archive table then
data is irretrievably lost. I can't decide if that's a bad thing, I'd
love to get your thoughts on that.

> What if you extended this, either as a second plugin, or just
> additional features, to add "acts_as_archivable"?Which is effectively
> the same thing, but instead of thinking in terms of "delete" and
> "undelete", it's "archived" or not.

I originally intended to make an acts_as_paranoid replacement that
worked with rails 2.0 and I got stuck in the 'deleted' paradigm. Now
that you point it out I agree 'archive' is a better metaphor. I'll
have to think about whether I want to go through the trouble to rename
everything :)

> Post.find_with_archive_by_author("John Do") # => would find all posts
> from the "posts" table AND the "archived_posts" table

This is a cool idea too! Its not obvious to me how I'd implement this.
My first thought is method_missing so I could handle methods that
start like 'find_with_archive...'. But I would need a way to decline
to handle stuff like 'find_by_author' so that ActiveRecords
method_missing can do its thing. I'm not sure how to do that but I'll
play around with it.

> Keep it up!
>
> -Danimal

Thanks for the great ideas and I love to hear any more feedback and
whether you were able to use it successfully!

Andy
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