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Ruby Database Issues

Larry Cousino
Larry Cousino
23,127 Points
Posted by Larry Cousino
Larry Cousino
23,127 Points

Instead of destroying a record. If a user were to click destroy, can the record just be made inactive?

Maybe active could be an attribute, set to true or false. This would allow an admin to easily recover the inactive record.

2 Answers

Fernando Cordeiro
Fernando Cordeiro
34,597 Points
Fernando Cordeiro
Fernando Cordeiro
34,597 Points

Wouldn't that simply make it a PUT request where you change an 'status' column from 1 to 0 instead?

Larry Cousino
Larry Cousino
23,127 Points
Larry Cousino
Larry Cousino
23,127 Points

For sure you're on the right track and may be correct, but I'm not certain. Years ago, I did something like this is a visual basic program, that was connected to a SQL server. When employees left, the users would delete them; however, on the backend I could undelete them, making them visible again. Thanks Fernando.