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

On May 18, 7:05 pm, Danimal <fightonfightw...@...> wrote:
> 1) Migrations:
> Another thought would be to offer some sort of warning... i.e. running
> a migration that removes columns would give a warning... which could
> be overridden by a flag or even some environment setting.

I like the warning approach that can be disabled. With that in place,
I don't mind automatically syncing tables rather than the manual
#update_columns call. I'll try to get these changes implemented soon.

> You might even do some plugin research and find some
> others that do some custom Find calls and use that as a starting
> point.

Thats a good idea. I'll look around for that. Maybe someone reading
this thread can suggest something?

> 4) File-based Archival
>
> I could even imagine adding some hook whereby the archival takes
> records from the DB and dumps them to some flat-file, or XML, or CSV
> or some such format. This may not be necessary... but I can imagine
> some possible use. I.e. where you "archive" (to the archive tables)
> posts older than 3 months, but you "flat-file-archive" posts older
> than 1 year. Just an idea, though... maybe it's not that useful.

It would also be possible to write a rake task to dump the archival
tables with mysqldump or the equivalent.

> The biggest win of your approach over acts_as_paranoid is the speedup
> in normal queries because the "deleted" data simply isn't in those
> tables anymore. And most normal usage won't need the deleted data
> anyway.

Oh yeah, I'll have to add this advantage to my readme!

Take care,
Andy
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