Any ideas guys or is it ok to handle this approach?
elioncho wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I created activity feeds for my project using a polymorphic model
> called feed. The table contains the following columns:
>
> resource_id
> resource_type
> user_id
> project_id
>
> Everytime I added a record its feed was added via an observer and
> everytime it was deleted the feed was gone too. The problem is that I
> now want to have a feed for deleted records.
>
> Problem: When I delete a record now, the original feed stays unerased
> and when I render the activity feeds I can no longer use the
> resource_id value to find data to display cause that id it no longer
> exists.
>
> I decided to use two extra columns. One to save a common name that I
> could use on my deleted record feeds. For example if my feed said
> "Roger has been created", (roger which is the name of the user, was
> found via the resource_id) now I saved that name to a new column
> called resource_name. That way I could look into that column to write
> my feed: "Roger has been deleted" once the record gets deleted. The
> second column will be one called action that will let me know if the
> feed was for a "create" or "destroy" action, which will help me on
> displaying the feed message accordingly.
>
> So what are your opinions on this approach. Do you have any ideas to
> optimize it or a whole new better approach?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Elías
>
> P.S. By the way, when a record is deleted I want it to be truly
> deleted. I don't want an approach where I could add a deleted_at
> column to keep the record unused but available to help me on
> referencing the resource_id).
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