Yeah, -1 on the deprecation as well. On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Rafael Mendonça França wrote:
> I don't think we should do anything with this method. The documentation is > clear about how it works. > > > > > Deletes the record in the database and freezes this instance to reflect that > no changes should be made (since they can’t be persisted). Returns the frozen > instance. > > > The row is simply removed with an SQL DELETE statement on the record’s > primary key, and no callbacks are executed. > > > To enforce the object’s before_destroy and after_destroy callbacks or any > :dependent association options, use #destroy > > > > > Rafael Mendonça França > http://twitter.com/rafaelfranca > https://github.com/rafaelfranca > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Benjamin Niemietz > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> > wrote: > > I suggest deprecating the .delete method. Since it bypasses the callbacks > > and dependent destroys, it can really mislead beginning users. Or a > > possible fix would be renaming it to a less friendly name that would be > > used. I see programmers that come over from other languages assuming this > > is the traditional syntax for a common way to remove an record. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected] > > (mailto:rubyonrails-core%[email protected]). > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
