Allows restoring your Active Records from the dead!

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'zombie_record'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install zombie_record

Simply include the ZombieRecord::Restorable in your model class:

class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
  include ZombieRecord::Restorable
end

Zombie Record assumes the model's table has a deleted_at column with the timestamp type.

You can now delete and restore Book records:

book = Book.find(42)
book.destroy

Book.find(42) # raises ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound.

book = Book.deleted.find(42)
book.restore!

Book.find(42) # returns the Book record.

Zombie Record only works with Active Record >= 4. For Active Record 3 compatibility, check out the activerecord-3 branch of this gem.

A new version is published to RubyGems.org every time a change to version.rb is pushed to the main branch. In short, follow these steps:

1. Update version.rb,
2. update version in all Gemfile.lock files,
3. merge this change into main, and
4. look at the action for output.

To create a pre-release from a non-main branch:

1. change the version in version.rb to something like 1.2.0.pre.1 or 2.0.0.beta.2,
2. push this change to your branch,
3. go to Actions → “Publish to RubyGems.org” on GitHub,
4. click the “Run workflow” button,
5. pick your branch from a dropdown.

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