Suppose I have a Post model, and a Comment model. Using a common pattern, Post has_many Comments. If Comment has a default_scope set: default_scope where("deleted_at IS NULL") How do I easily r...

Everywhere on the internet people mention that using the rails default_scope is a bad idea, and the top hits for default_scope on stackoverflow are about how to overwrite it. This feels messed up, ...

So basically I have two classes, Book and Author. Books can have multiple authors and authors can have multiple books. Books have the following default scope. default_scope :order => "publish_a...

In a resource registered with ActiveAdmin, I have the following default_scope defined for the model: default_scope :order => 'activities.updated_at DESC' This apparently prevents me from bein...

My app has not only Users but also Admins and SuperAdmins. Since all three share the same attributes i'd like to use only one Table with an additional attribute "role" that can either be "user", "a...

In my Rails app have a default scope that looks like this: default_scope order: 'external_updated_at DESC' I have now upgraded to Rails 4 and, of course, I get the following deprecation warning ...

class CreateCrews < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up create_table :crews do |t| t.string :title t.text :description t.boolean :adult t.boolean :private t.integer :gender_id t.boolean ...

I'm using the paranoia gem to "soft-delete" records. Now I need to eager load these records, some of which might have been deleted, for an associated model. Paranoia adds this default_scope to the ...

my model has default_scope(:order => 'created_at' ) my tests (rspec, factory girl, shoulda, etc.) are: require 'spec/spec_helper.rb' describe CatMembership do context "is valid" do subject { Fa...

On Rails 3.1 RC6, given class Animal < ActiveRecord::Base default_scope where(legs: 4) end The following does not work as expected: class Man < Animal default_scope unscoped.where(legs:...

I know named_scope has been changed to scope in rails 3. How do I perform default_scope in rails 3, I've had a good google but found nothing for defaults scopes.

I can't find too much documentation on applying a default scope to a model in yii, I was wondering if someone could explain or point me in the right direction. The quick version of my question: I...

I believe this is a bug in Rails 3. I am hoping someone here can steer me in the correct direction. The code posted below, is purely for illustration of this problem. Hopefully this does not confus...

I have a situation where the behavior of an existing app is changing and it's causing me a major headache. My app has Photos. Photos have a status: "batch", "queue", or "complete". All the existin...

I need to do some filtering on my ActiveRecord models, I want to filter all my model objects by owner_id. The thing I need is basically the default_scope for ActiveRecord. But I need to filter by ...

In ActiveRecord there is a default_scope class method to specify a default scope. For example class User < ActiveRecord::Base default_scope where(:deleted => false) end User.all # => SE...

I've seen a lot of posts regarding this, but none seem to solve my problem. I have a default_scope on a model like so: default_scope where(:is_active => true).order('LOWER(table.name)'); I ha...

I've got a model setup like the following: class User has_many :items has_many :words, :through => :items end class Item belongs_to :user belongs_to :word default_scope where(:active =&g...

In my Post.rb model, I have default_scope :conditions => {:deleted => 'false'} But if I try to run Post.find(:all, :conditions => "deleted='false'"), it won't return anything. It's as if ...

I'm trying to set default scope according to some criteria determined by ana ActionController before_filter. In controller: before_filter :authorize ... def authorize if some_condition @defau...