To answer AJ (a little late I know), you want to open up ActiveRecord::Base class (create a file in lib or an initializer then just do class ActiveRecord::Base) and alias the find method then use the code above and call the aliased method instead of super.

As for non-deleted in the example above you could just call ActiveRecord::Base.find directly but if you’ve aliased the method you’ll want to call that instead.

Also, this does not work with associations.

So @blog.posts.find will still not retrieve only non-deleted posts even if above method is defined in posts model. How can we get over this ?

I will appreciate if you could please mail me the solution