Marking/Flagging a record as deleted/expired instead of actually removing the row from the database

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Hi,

I've a system which does not delete records from the database but marks them as 'expired' and the excludes such in any view of the current data.

Is there an easy way to override the behaviour of AR.destroy to have it behave in this fashion or am I best off just introducing an "expire" method instead?

Thanks, James.

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James,

Check out Rick's fine acts_as_paranoid - it does what you've done but overrides delete.

http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_paranoid

Cheers, Jodi General Partner The nNovation Group inc. www.nnovation.ca/blog

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Hi,

I've a system which does not delete records from the database but marks them as 'expired' and the excludes such in any view of the current data.

Is there an easy way to override the behaviour of AR.destroy to have it behave in this fashion or am I best off just introducing an "expire" method instead?

acts_as_paranoid

http://ar-paranoid.rubyforge.org/

Thanks, James.

--Greg

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Thanks to both Jodi & Gregory for that

Cheers, James