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mongoid-paranoia

Important: This gem is an extraction of Mongoid::Paranoia from the official mongoid gem. Since Mongoid::Paranoia was removed in the 4.0.0 release of Mongoid, this gem re-enables the functionality of paranoid documents.

Please submit only bug and security fixes. Neither I will accept new features nor changes to existing APIs.

Attention: There are two similarly named gems out there: mongoid-paranoia and mongoid_paranoia

mongoid-paranoia's (this one) goal is to stay API compatible, which comes at the cost of (breaking) API changes to be rejected. If you're updating a Mongoid 3.x app to Mongoid 4+ and you depend on Mongoid::Paranoia this gem is recommended for continuity.
However if your code is working and you want new features, for example a *_restore callback, you should head over to @simi's mongoid_paranoia gem at https://github.com/simi/mongoid_paranoia. He is doing a great job there and is willing to accept your PRs ;)

There may be times when you don't want documents to actually get deleted from the database, but "flagged" as deleted. Mongoid provides a Paranoia module to give you just that.

Installation

In your Gemfile:

gem 'mongoid-paranoia'

Usage

class Person
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Mongoid::Paranoia
end

person.delete   # Sets the deleted_at field to the current time, ignoring callbacks.
person.delete!  # Permanently deletes the document, ignoring callbacks.
person.destroy  # Sets the deleted_at field to the current time, firing callbacks.
person.destroy! # Permanently deletes the document, firing callbacks.
person.restore  # Brings the "deleted" document back to life.

The documents that have been "flagged" as deleted (soft deleted) can be accessed at any time by calling the deleted class method on the class.

Person.deleted # Returns documents that have been "flagged" as deleted.

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request

Copyright

(The MIT license)

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