How to unscope multiple models in rails? - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am trying to unscope multiple model as below
User Model which has acts_as_paranoid
class User
acts_as_paranoid
has_one :category
has_one :brand
has_one :item
INDEXED_FIELDS = {
only: [:name],
include: {
category: { only: [:name] },
item: { only:[:name] },
brand: { only: [:name]},
}
}
def custom_json
Category.unscoped do
Item.unscoped do
Brand.unscoped do
self.as_json(INDEXED_FIELDS)
end
end
end
end
end
User model has following association which also has acts_as_paranoid
Sample Category model, Brand and Item model have same code
class Category
acts_as_paranoid
belongs_to :user
end
Can I do this dynamically with 'N' number of models, like iterating over array as below
def custom_json
[Category, Item, Brand].each do
# do unscoping
end
end
Association looks like

Answer 1

I think the approach you may have is to unscope the class manually, by setting default_scopes to [], and then putting it back.
classes_to_unscope = [Category, Item, Brand]
# remove default_scopes, saving them in previous_scopes
previous_scopes = classes_to_unscope.map do |klazz|
scopes = klazz.default_scopes
klazz.default_scopes = []
scopes
end
self.as_json(INDEXED_FIELDS)
# put default_scopes back
classes_to_unscope.each_with_index do |klazz, i|
klazz.default_scopes = previous_scopes[i]
end

Answer 2

As extra method:
def unscope_all(*models, &block)
# the order does not matter, but preserve it
blocks = [block] + models.reverse.map do |model|
proc do |inner_block|
model.unscoped { inner_block.call }
end
end
blocks.inject do |inner, outer|
proc { outer.call(inner) }
end.call
end
Then you would use it:
unscope_all(Category, Item, Brand) do
# do unscoping
end
unscoped pitfall: when leaving the block you loose the "unscopability", so make sure you don't return a relation (it won't be unscoped). Instead you have to resolve it in the block (e.g. by returning an array where(...).to_a.