# Help with acts as paranoid

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-acts-as-paranoid/113395>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 30, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-acts-as-paranoid/113395 "2007-08-30T18:02:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![newrubyguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@newrubyguy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newrubyguy)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-acts-as-paranoid/113395/1 "2007-08-30T18:02:23Z")

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Hello,

I am using acts as paranoid which works great. But I have the following  
problem. I have table a which has a has\_many :tableb, :dependent =\>  
false relationship with table b. If I delete something in a and then try  
to edit a field in table b I get an error because it says the data does  
not exist so it doesn’t allow the update. I understand of course why  
this happens but I can’t figure out a solution. I think I need to allow  
tableB to see the deleted\_at data from table a. Basically what I want to  
do is that even though an item may have been deleted it only means that  
it can not be used in the future but I still want to know where and when  
it was used in the past.  
I hope I was clear enough and thanks for the help.