We have a Page model which acts_as_paranoid.
AAP modifies ActiveRecord finders to ignore any records marked as
deleted unless the :with_deleted => true option is supplied.
We have a UI element which allows users to toggle whether or not to
display deleted Pages, their current setting being stored in a session
variable, session[:show_deleted].
What we would like is to automagically have :with_deleted => session
[:show_deleted] appended to all calls to find, all, first, find_by_
etc.
That would be easy enough to do with an alias_method_chain but for the
fact that session data is not available when the call is being made
from a model.
I know accessing session data in a model is controversial, but can
anyone suggest a workaround? Or alternatively another approach to
being able to easily switch between including/ignoring deleted records
in all finder methods?
Thanks.
