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...de the way I am normally doing, and I would only have to code extra for the cases when I really want to find the deleted records (normally the find is only for these or for one of them). Also, this would make it easier to switch delete_strategy later on as well. I was hoping for a general purpose :before_find filter, which I could use to add the :constraints settings. Such a solution could be utilized in many other ways too I guess. But, unfortunately there is no such thing in ActiveRecord. Using this approach could be good, but I would still need to do some coding to make the delete strategy transparen...