Ruby on Rails Hacks

The best way to have organized deleted records, in a full functional easily restorative form in Ruby on Rails applications is to use the gem (or plugin) ActsAsArchive

Install the gem

  sudo gem install acts_as_archive

And also add in the application’s gem configuration, by adding the following line in your environment.rb

 config.gem 'acts_as_archive'

Add acts_as_archive to your models:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_archive
end

Create archive tables

Add this line to a migration as the last line of the method self.up

ActsAsArchive.update Article