Creating a secondary delete option

Question

I've create a table that gets populated with status_updates by the user over time. Each status can be deleted individually.

This is accomplished by calling the destroy method in the status_update_controller and having the particular status_update identified in a private method called correct_user.

So basically it looks like this:

At the top of my status_update_controller

before_filter :correct_user, only: :destroy

The destroy method

def destroy
    @status_update.destroy
    redirect_to root_url
end    

and the private correct user method

private

    def correct_user
      @status_update = current_user.status_update.find_by_id(params[:id])
      redirect_to root_url if @status_update.nil?
    end  

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My question is this:

How can I select all of the status_updates for a particular user and destroy them using a button or link?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Define inside your StatusUpdatesController an action like this:

def delete_all
  current_user.status_updates.delete_all
end

You will need to route to this action also:

resources :status_updates do
  collection do
    delete :delete_all
  end
end

And to make a button:

button_to "Delete the everything", delete_all_status_updates_path, :method => :delete