I've asked this on on Stack Overflow but didn't receive much of a response:
The Rails 4 documentation says this regarding destroy callbacks on the join
model for a has_many :through relationship:
collection=objects Replaces the collections content by deleting and adding
objects as appropriate. If the :through option is true callbacks in the
join models are triggered except destroy callbacks, since deletion is
direct.
Thankfully it's documented at least, but I want to know why on earth this
is the case? It makes more sense to trigger destroy callbacks (or have the
option to) on a :through since these types of models can have destroy
callbacks and other associations.
In my case I had a has_and_belongs_to_many relationship on the join tables
model off to another model. The records on that second join table would
never be deleted when the associated records on the first join table were
deleted. I resorted to this which feels hacky, and I have to repeat myself
on each side of the :through relationship:
class SchoolsTemplate < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :school
belongs_to :template
has_and_belongs_to_many :groups
end
class School < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :schools_templates, dependent: :destroy
has_many :templates, through: :schools_templates, before_remove:
:remove_groups_school_templates
private
def remove_groups_school_templates(template)
schools_templates.where(template: template).first.groups.clear end
end
There's a validation to 'ensure' uniqueness on the join tables records
between the two foreign keys, so that's why I can call first in the
callback.
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