HasArchive

This project was born out of frustration with all the options I've found so far for archiving non-current ActiveRecord backed models, so I'm going to give it a go. The initial target will be Rails 4 (point two-ish) on Postgres, and if it goes somewhere, I will begin looking at what else we can support.

Please halp. This is far from ready, but if this seems like a useful/worthwhile project to you, please feel free to dig and lend a hand.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'has_archive'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install has_archive

1. First, create your archive tables for any models you wish to make archivable. There is a utility method (HasArchive::MigrationManager.create_archive_for) to help generate the starting migrations. It must match the columns for the archivable model, plus add an archived_at datetime field.

2. Call has_archive in your models.

Access the archive model directly with ModelName::Archive, or use the class method archived to union live and archived records.

Archive a record by calling archive on it. Optionally, destroy may be overridden to work as a "soft delete" by setting Rails.configuration.has_archive.override_destroy to true.

An archived record may be returned to the main table by calling restore on it.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/matt-morris/has_archive.