<p>To be honest I'm pretty sure this would actually work anyway:</p>

<pre><code>acts_as_paranoid :column => "visible", :column_type => :string, :deleted_value => false
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<p>Because all it actually does for a string column is build arels that match that column to the given value so the column doesn't really need to be a string.</p>

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