Denis, I did this sort of thing with user accounts a while ago.. I had set up a site that needed to mark users as 'inactive' if they ever decided to close their account.
Your issue with web crawlers seeing the Move to Trash link makes me think this page is public and not member-only accessible? If so, I can't think of any way to tell a spider to not look at particular parts of the text (maybe there is a way, i've always done a traditional approach and told the spider to leave my whole page alone). Either way, on to a possible solution: The two actions I would have are: (already in your code) desotry - this action houses the traditional rails destroy method that will remove the record from the table and any dependencies. (need to add) move_to_trash - the new action that will call the move_to_tash method we will create on the object in view Explanation: You should not modify the destroy action and following rails conventions and good programming practice I would not pass a parameter into a destroy action and then decide what kind of 'destroy' to execute. Rather, let's create a second action called move_to_trash with the same access privileges as the destroy. The reason we do this is because logically our two actions are doing very different things, one is destroying a sql record and the other is changing an attribute on an object. So we add a move_to_trash method to the model and subsequently we will want a new column on our model moved_to_trash (boolean). Now the move_to_trash action will call the model.move_to_trash and then that method will called a self.update_attribute(:moved_to_trash, true). [[Alternatively, this is where I like to encourage using enums in your database and have your model have states. It could be very clean to have a column "status" and then you have :moved_to_trash, :inbox, :other_cool_states ]] Hopefully you find this helpful. If you provide more details about your particular situation we can work out a solution that fits. On May 22, 1:54 am, Denis Kokin <denis.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you, Frederick. > > Can you give me more details? Some sample code would be useful for me. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
