Paranoid Documents for Mongoid 4

There may be times when you don't want documents to actually get deleted from the database, but "flagged" as deleted. Mongoid-paranoia provides a Paranoia module to give you just that.

Old API from Mongoid 3.0 is extracted in 3.0.0-stable branch and doesn't work with Mongoid 4 anymore.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mongoid-paranoia', github: 'simi/mongoid-paranoia' # before first release

This will be changed soon - simi#5. Please leave a note if you don't like this behaviour, it will be merged soon.

validates_uniqueness_of :title
validates :title, :uniqueness => true

validates :title, :uniqueness_including_deleted => true

class Person
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Mongoid::Paranoia
end

person.delete   # Sets the deleted_at field to the current time, ignoring callbacks.
person.delete!  # Permanently deletes the document, ignoring callbacks.
person.destroy  # Sets the deleted_at field to the current time, firing callbacks.
person.destroy! # Permanently deletes the document, firing callbacks.
person.restore  # Brings the "deleted" document back to life.

The documents that have been "flagged" as deleted (soft deleted) can be accessed at any time by calling the deleted class method on the class.

Person.deleted # Returns documents that have been "flagged" as deleted.

You can also access all documents (both deleted and non-deleted) at any time by using the unscoped class method:

Person.unscoped.all # Returns all documents, both deleted and non-deleted

• get rid of monkey_patches.rb
• review persisted? behaviour

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request