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Description: Rails Plugin - soft-delete your ActiveRecord records with a deleted_at timestamp. This is a much more explicit version of ActsAsParanoid
Homepage: http://6brand.com
Clone URL: git://github.com/JackDanger/permanent_records.git
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PermanentRecords
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This plugin prevents any of your records from being destroyed casually.
Any model with a deleted_at datetime column will have that column set rather than being deleted.
 
Usage
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User.find(3).destroy          # sets the 'deleted_at' attribute to Time.now and returns a frozen record
User.find(3).destroy(:force)  # executes the real destroy method, the record will be removed from the database
User.delete_all               # bye bye everything
 
There are also two named scopes provided for easily searching deleted and not deleted records:
 
User.send :with_deleted { User.find(:all) }     # only returns deleted records.
User.send :with_not_deleted { User.find(:all) } # you guessed it.
 
These are named so as to work smoothly with other scoping plugins like scope_out.
 
 
Copyright (c) 2008 Jack Danger Canty of adPickles Inc., released under the MIT license