class Event < ActiveRecord::
Base```
` has_``many :categories`
`end
If I delete a category, it affects the events that were created before. How can make sure that event can still display it's old category name? TIA.
Look at acts_as_paranoid. I use it for a similar, but different reason, but it may help you. Basically, if you add acts_as_paranoid to your category model, when you destroy a category, it actually sets a column deleted_at to the current time. Acts_as_paranoid overrides the find and count methods to ignore anything that has deleted_at not null. However, it has accessor methods that allow you to return all categories including those with the deleted_at column set. I heard someone say that the author of this plugin may not be supporting it in the future, however, I am using it with no issues. YMMV
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Acts+As+Paranoid+Plugin
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