Future date on soft delete

[MatheusRich]

Can I set a future date to soft delete an object?

object.deleted_at = DateTime.tomorrow

So the gem would check if deleted_at != nil and DateTime.today < deleted_at

[jarednorman]

That's not currently how the gem works, no.

[MatheusRich]

I think I could add this behavior if you think it would be good. What do you think?

[jarednorman]

This project is kind of in limbo. I've been assisting with a small amount of maintenance, but only because I work on things that depend on paranoia. I don't personally feel like I should accept/add new features to the project as I'm really just here to keep things functioning.

That said, this seems like a good idea and am sure it would be useful to other people too.

[rikkipitt]

Hey folks, I'd be interested in this feature too. Do you think a pull request would be accepted or is the project still in limbo @jarednorman?

Cheers!

[jarednorman]

As far as I know the project is not accepting new features. I don't have commit bit, so it's not up to me, but it has been years since the last non-maintenance PR merged and the README is pretty blunt about it:

Paranoia will continue to accept bug fixes and support new versions of Rails but isn't accepting new features.

[mathieujobin]

if enough people desire this. and someone submit a PR that includes tests, a config flag to disable it and everything working nicely. I can include in a future release.

[Envek]

I made an approach to implement handling of future dates for soft-deletion, published it as a gist for now, because there are questions about query performance, callbacks execution time, etc.

Grab it from here and test: https://gist.github.com/Envek/ff4423022de00ba7611df865a34d7b78