Rails: Use destroy action in model's method

Question

I need to do some task before I destroy a user. I am doing a system for a network marketing company. I need to change the user of users. So this is what I did:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base


    def delete_this_user
      some_actions
.
.
.
      self.destroy
end


end

the

self.destroy doesn't destroy the user from the database. Can anybody help? Thanks

Does it not? It certainly should. What happens? (Eg is a delete sql query executed but rolled back?) — Frederick Cheung, Jan 18 '16 at 07:59

Andrey Deineko · Answer 1 · 2016-01-18T09:54:51.440

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class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  def delete_this_user
    some_actions
    self.class.delete(id)
  end
end

UPD (thx @Rich):

delete will skip all callbacks, whereas destroy will trigger every associated callback.

edited Jan 18 '16 at 09:54

answered Jan 18 '16 at 07:54

Andrey Deineko

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Must be known that this will [skip all the callbacks etc](http://stackoverflow.com/a/22757533/1143732) – Richard Peck Jan 18 '16 at 09:38

Rails: Use destroy action in model's method

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