How about Item.destroy_all(conditions)
Which will call the destroy callback methods (slow if you are destroying many records). If you don't care about callbacks, use delete_all instead. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M001974 On Jan 6, 3:22 pm, scott <[email protected]> wrote: > why doesn't this work > items.destroy if items = find(:all, :conditions => ...) > > right now i have this that works, but it seems ugly and inefficient. > > if items = find(:all, :conditions => ...) > items.each do |item| > item.destroy > end > end > > there must be a better way --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
