How to “soft delete” user with Devise

Question

I currently use Devise for user registration/authentication in a Rails project. When a user wants to cancel their account, the user object is destroyed, which leaves my appl

Answer 1

A complete tutorial can be found at Soft Delete a Devise User Account on the Devise wiki page.

Summary:
1. Add a "deleted_at" DATETIME column
2. Override users/registrations#destroy in your routes
3. Override users/registrations#destroy in the registrations controller
4. Update user model with a soft_delete & check if user is active on authentication
5. Add a custom delete message