Soft Deletes - Let's try this again...

[Mike Gehard]

Hello all,

It seems that my first posting got into some sort of limbo so
apologies for the repost...


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 scope) and a handler on delete to
set the deleted_at column and prevent the actual DB delete will do
the
trick. Any gotchas that I need to watch out for?

Thanks in advance.
Mike

[eugenio]

i simply use the destroy action and a date column for that.