method

destroy

v4.2.9 - Show latest stable - Class: ActiveRecord::Persistence

destroy()

public

Deletes the record in the database and freezes this instance to reflect that no changes should be made (since they can’t be persisted).

There’s a series of callbacks associated with destroy. If the before_destroy callback return false the action is cancelled and destroy returns false. See ActiveRecord::Callbacks for further details.

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/persistence.rb, line 168
    def destroy
      raise ReadOnlyRecord, "#{self.class} is marked as readonly" if readonly?
      destroy_associations
      self.class.connection.add_transaction_record(self)
      destroy_row if persisted?
      @destroyed = true
      freeze
    end

destroy

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