Paranoid Versions

As I mentioned in my previous post, we have an Item object that is both versioned and remains in the database after it's deleted. Fortunately, there's two ruby plugins that do just that: acts_as_versioned and acts_as_paranoid. Unfortunately, these plugins don't work together perfectly. Even more unfortunately, this fix doesn't work as it should because acts_as_versioned tries to version the deleted_at column as well, so here's the module we're using to combine them:

module ActiveRecord
 module Acts
  module Versioned
    module ClassMethods
      def acts_as_paranoid_versioned
        acts_as_paranoid
        acts_as_versioned    
        self.non_versioned_columns << 'deleted_at'
        # protect the versioned model
        self.versioned_class.class_eval do
          def self.delete_all(conditions = nil); return; end
        end
      end
    end
  end
 end
end