cheers Craig, those instructions were really clear and worked perfectly. Thanks again,
DAZ On Dec 19, 5:33 pm, "Craig Demyanovich" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:20 PM, DAZ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > What is the best way to delete all members of a model? > > > For example I have a tasks model and want to put a link in that will > > delete all tasks at once. Something like, > > > @tasks = Task.all > > @tasks.each { |task| task.destroy } > > If you need to allow callbacks to run or dependent associations to also be > destroyed, you can use Task.destroy_all. If you don't need those things, > Task.delete_all will be much faster. > > > Do I need another action for this, and what should the link to it be? > > You could add another route. For example, > > map.resources :tasks, :collection => { :destroy_all => :delete } > > In TasksController, you'd add something like > > def destroy_all > Task.destroy_all > # redirect, render some RJS, etc. > end > > In a view, you could > > link_to "Delete all", destroy_all_tasks_path > > You might want to put a confirmation on the link_to. > > Regards, > Craig --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
