Virtually deleting rows from tables

rubyonrails-talk
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I dont want to delete the records from my tables but just set a column is_deleted to true. What is the best (clean)way to implement this?

Is there any way of defining a model which includes only a set of records which satisfy a certain conditions.eg a condition to include the records for which is_deleted is false some thing like this

def User << ActiveRecord::Base    :conditions=> "is_deleted=false" end Regards, Pankaj

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Hi,

You could override the destroy method in the controller:

ApplicationController

...   def destroy     Car.find(params[:id]).is_deleted = true     redirect_to :action => 'list'   end ... end

Pablo.-

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the acts_as_paranoid plugin does this.