Make any ActiveRecord model paranoid by just including Immortal, and instead of being deleted from the database, the object will just marked as 'deleted' with a boolean field in the database.

Add the gem dependency to your Gemfile:

gem 'immortal'

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Immortal
end

And add a boolean field called deleted to that model:

class AddDeletedToUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    add_column :users, :deleted, :boolean
  end
  def self.down
    remove_column :users, :deleted
  end
end

• Add documentation in the code
• Spec associations
• Add support for a :with_deleted option in associations, like acts_as_paranoid
• Improve compatibility with acts_as_paranoid

If you want to improve immortal

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a topic branch git checkout -b my_feature
3. Push it! git push origin my_feature
4. Open a pull request

• 0.1.6 Fixing immortal issue 2: with_deleted breaks associations
• 0.1.5 Add "without deleted" scope to join model by overriding HasManyThroughAssociation#construct_conditions rather than simply adding to has_many conditions.
• 0.1.4 fix bug where ALL records of any dependent associations were immortally deleted if assocation has :dependant => :delete_all option set
• 0.1.3 fix bug where join model is not immortal
• 0.1.2 fix loading issue when the deleted column doesn't exist (or even the table)
• 0.1.1 fix behavior with has_many :through associations