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I''m trying to get some opinions on a design I''m floating ("rails way" or not?). Say I''ve got an Author model in my Blog application and I want my administrators to be able to disable authors. I don''t want to delete authors because this would cause data integrity issues (orphaned Author foreign key in the Post model). So my plan is to re- task the

Hello all, I am wondering how people here are handling soft deletes in Rails. I''ve need a couple of gems/plugins that seem to handle this but from what I gather development has stopped on them. All I need to do right now is mark something as deleted in the DB...nothing fancy. I''m thinking that the simple addition of a deleted_at column, some named scopes (maybe even a default