Soft deletes for ActiveRecord done right. SoftTrash provides a simple and effective way to implement soft deletion in your Rails applications.

• Simple integration with ActiveRecord models
• Customizable column names for soft delete functionality
• Scopes for including/excluding soft-deleted records
• Callbacks for soft deletion events
• Works with associations
• Supports Rails 5.2+ and Ruby 2.6+

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'soft_trash'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install soft_trash

1. Generate and run the migration for a model:

rails generate soft_trash:install Post
rails db:migrate

add t.soft_trash 
example 

class CreatePosts < ActiveRecord::Migration[8.0]
  def change
    create_table :posts do |t|
      t.string :name
      t.soft_trash
      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

2. Include the module in your model:

class Post < ApplicationRecord
  include SoftTrash::Model
end

By default, SoftTrash will:

• Add a deleted_at datetime column to track deletion
• Add a default scope to exclude soft-deleted records
• Override destroy to perform soft deletion
• Provide really_destroy! for permanent deletion

# Get all records (default scope)
Post.all

# Get only non-deleted records
Post.active

# Get only deleted records
Post.deleted

post = Post.find(1)

# Soft delete a record
post.trash!  # Sets deleted_at to current time

# Check if a record is soft-deleted
post.trashed?  # => true

# Restore a soft-deleted record
post.restore!

# Check if a record is not soft-deleted
post.active?  # => true

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/mahendraxceed/soft_trash. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the SoftTrash project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.