Soft Deletes - Let's try this again...

Hello all,

It seems that my first posting got into some sort of limbo so apologies for the repost...

I am wondering how people here are handling soft deletes in Rails. I've need a couple of gems/plugins that seem to handle this but from what I gather development has stopped on them.

All I need to do right now is mark something as deleted in the DB...nothing fancy.

I'm thinking that the simple addition of a deleted_at column, some named scopes (maybe even a default scope) and a handler on delete to set the deleted_at column and prevent the actual DB delete will do the trick. Any gotchas that I need to watch out for?

Thanks in advance. Mike

i simply use the destroy action and a date column for that.