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Add a very soft deprecation notice · d721f52c
This isn't a change from how paranoia has been developed for the past few years, but makes it more explicit. I hope the recommendation against new projects using paranoia isn't too controversial. I think anyone who has used this gem extensively has been surprised by it many times. This is just the nature of replacing ActiveRecord's behaviour. I believe paranoia does extremely well given that it does that. A lot of developers will reach for paranoia or acts_as_paranoid because they're the first result they will find. However most users are just looking to hide or disable some records, and they would do much better to just toggle a flag rather than have paranoia override ActiveRecord's behaviour on their model. I hope linking to discard here isn't inappropriate, I believe it's the best resource describe the caveats of paranoia as well as give a good example of how to soft-delete without needing paranoia or acts_as_paranoid.
John Hawthorn committed