public Method

Base.destroy

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

Source Code

# File active_record/base.rb, line 1983
def destroy
  unless new_record?
    connection.delete "DELETE FROM \#{self.class.quoted_table_name}\nWHERE \#{connection.quote_column_name(self.class.primary_key)} = \#{quoted_id}\n", "#{self.class.name} Destroy"
  end

  freeze
end
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