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Allanon
Allanon

Reputation: 547

Delete multliple records on a particular date

I built a RoR app where I want to allow users to delete multiple items which created_at field matches the date which the user sets in the date field of the delete form. This would be a delete form with 1 date field, and a submit button.

I guess at first I need a custom route in which the created_at date, which the user chose, will be present as a parameter.

Then I need a custom action in the items controller to get the created_at parameter from the route, use it to get all the items which belongs to the user (which means that the user id must be present as a paramater also), and were created at the created_at date. Then use a loop to delete them. It sounds fairly straightforward but still I would like to know if there is a "best paractice" to make this happen. Like how to properly set up the route for this in rails way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 318

Answers (1)

Ryenski
Ryenski

Reputation: 9692

A simple if statement in your destroy action should do the trick: 

# DELETE /items/1
# DELETE /items/1.json
def destroy
  if params[:date]
    Item.where(created_at: params[:date]).destroy_all
  else
    Item.where(id: params[:id]).destroy
  end

  respond_to do |format|
    format.html { redirect_to items_url }
    format.json { head :no_content }
  end
end

Upvotes: 2

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