I think it might be handy to have a destroy action available on ActiveStorage::BlobsController <https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/5-2-0/activestorage/app/controllers/active_storage/blobs_controller.rb>, i.e:
rails_service_blob DELETE /rails/active_storage/blobs/:signed_id/*filename(.:format) active_storage/blobs#destroy I will be adding this functionality to an application, and if there's general support I'd be happy to submit it as a pull-request. The use case is to allow unattached blobs to be destroyed. For example, say you have a form that allows a customer to upload an avatar (via direct uploads <http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html#direct-upload-javascript-events>) and the customer: 1. Uploads "handsome.jpg", thereby creating a new Blob (blob-1) 2. Then decides to upload "extra-handsome.jpg" instead, which creates another new Blob (blob-2) 3. Submits the form, which attaches customer.avatar to blob-2 In this scenario blob-1 will forever be unattached. A scheduled rake task could of course periodically purge unattached blobs. But ideally, the Active Storage JavaScript library would allow the client to delete blob-1 directly from the cloud when it knows it will be unattached. I don't believe there are any security concerns, because we're using blob.signed_id. Would the Rails team consider a patch that adds this functionality? Thanks! -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
