What are folks using these days for "paranoid" deletion?

Rails
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Just curious what people are recommending these days for referential
integrity, etc. when it comes to record deletion. A while back I
looked at acts_as_paranoid and it looked promising but there were a
few issues with Rails 2.x as I seem to recall. It also seems like
that solution has fallen out of favor some and is not as widely used
anymore.

So what are some of my options if I care about record integrity? At
times I would like to delete records yet so they are not available for
future use but still preserve them for previous use.

TIA,

Sean

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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:43 PM, schof [email protected] wrote:

future use but still preserve them for previous use.
I usually use a “deleted” field. Simple, works.

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Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

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I haven’t used anything recently but came across this one today:

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I usually use a “deleted” field. Simple, works.

Simple but tedious and not very DRY. If you have 30+ active record
models in your application do you really implement this delete check
for all of them? Any shortcuts you can suggest?

Any other suggestions out there?

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schof wrote: 
  
I usually use a "deleted" field.  Simple, works.
    
Simple but tedious and not very DRY.  If you have 30+ active record
models in your application do you really implement this delete check
for all of them?  Any shortcuts you can suggest?
The named_scope functionality of Rails 2.1 could simplify this.
Any other suggestions out there?
  


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I had a feeling named scope might be helpful here. Thanks for the
tip. I will look into it.