[Rails] modeling questions

Howdy, I have a couple questions on the best way to model things in
rails.

1. How to model a table so an admin person can selectively turn on/
off hard/soft deletes from a table at a table level?
2. Model a parent/child relationship that can go infinitely deep.
specifically equipment, parent => child => child => child ....

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