Model has_many; delete all children?

[xmitchx]

Hi,

If I have a model that has_many of another table, how can I make it so that when i call that model's destroy method that it also destroys all the children? Is there a method to do this?

Currently I do it like this:

 @shop.destroy
 Item.destroy_all 'shop_id = ' + @params[:id]

It works but I was wondering if maybe there was a better way

Thanks again,
Mitch

[ezmobius1]

has_many :foos, :dependant => true

[xmitchx]

has_many :foos, :dependant => true

Thank you, that is what I was looking for. And I also found the documentation on it in the APIs:

:dependent - if set to :destroy (or true) all the associated objects are destroyed alongside this object. Also accepts :nullify which will set the associated object’s foreign key field to NULL. May not be set if :exclusively_dependent is also set.