Immortal

Make any ActiveRecord model paranoid by just including Immortal, and instead of being deleted from the database, the object will just marked as 'deleted' with a boolean field in the database.

Installation

Add the gem dependency to your Gemfile:

gem 'immortal'

Usage

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Immortal
end

And add a boolean field called deleted to that model:

class AddDeletedToUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    add_column :users, :deleted, :boolean
  end

  def self.down
    remove_column :users, :deleted
  end
end

TODO

• Add documentation in the code

Contributing

If you want to improve immortal

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a topic branch git checkout -b my_feature
3. Push it! git push origin my_feature
4. Open a pull request

CHANGELOG

• 1.0.5 Use separate internal accessors for with/only_deleted singular association readers
• 1.0.4 Extract with_deleted singular assoc readers to separate module
• 1.0.3 Added back feature where using immortal finders doesn't unscope association scopes.
• 1.0.2 Added with/only_deleted singular association readers (see specs)
• 1.0.1 Made compatible with Rails 3.1.X
• 1.0.0 Changed the API, made it compatible with Rails 3.1, removed functionality
• 0.1.6 Fixing immortal issue 2: with_deleted breaks associations
• 0.1.5 Add "without deleted" scope to join model by overriding HasManyThroughAssociation#construct_conditions rather than simply adding to has_many conditions.
• 0.1.4 fix bug where ALL records of any dependent associations were immortally deleted if assocation has :dependant => :delete_all option set
• 0.1.3 fix bug where join model is not immortal
• 0.1.2 fix loading issue when the deleted column doesn't exist (or even the table)
• 0.1.1 fix behavior with has_many :through associations