Question

I have a simple model in RoR and I would like to keep eveything people enter on the site. But I also want to be able to hide some content if the user click on “Remove”.

So I added a bolean attribute in my model called “displayed”.

I would like to know, what would be the best-practices-styled method.

I guess I have to change the controller with something like :

def destroy
 @point = Point.find(params[:id])
 @point.displayed = false
 @point.save

respond_to do |format|
  format.html { redirect_to points_url }
  format.json { head :no_content }
end

But I am not sure it is clean. What would be the best way to do it.

As you guess I am noobish with RoR. Chunks of code would be appreciated.

Thank you

Answer 1

Something like this:

class Point < ActiveRecord::Base

  def archive        
    update_attribute!(:displayed, false)
  end 

end

And then call @point.archive in the destroy action of your controller where you would normally call @point.destroy. You can also create a default_scope to hide archived points until you explicitly query for them, seethe RoR guide on appling a default scope.

Edit: Updated my answer as per normalocity & logan’s comments below.