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# Delete Paranoid Records
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The [ActsAsParanoid gem](https://github.com/ActsAsParanoid/acts_as_paranoid)
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provides soft delete functionality to `ActiveRecord` objects in Rails. You
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can enhance a model with its functionality like so:
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```ruby
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class User < ActiveRecord::Base
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acts_as_paranoid
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end
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```
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This gem hijacks `ActiveRecord`'s standard `destroy` and `destroy!`
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functionality. If you call either of these methods, instead of the record
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being deleted from the database, it's `deleted_at` column is updated from
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`nil` to the current timestamp. Resulting in a _soft deleted_ record.
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If you call `destroy` or `destroy!` a second time (i.e. on a record that has
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already been soft deleted), it will be actually deleted from the database.
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Alternatively, you can call `destroy_fully!` from the beginning to skip the
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soft delete.
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