Virtually deleting rows from tables

Rails
1

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

2

Hi,

You could override the destroy method in the controller:

UsersController>> ApplicationController
…
def destroy
Car.find(params[:id]).is_deleted = true
redirect_to :action => ‘list’
end
…
end

Pablo.-

3

the acts_as_paranoid plugin does this.