Rails - Objects not refreshed after Saving or Deleting

Question

I am doing some saving and destroying operation on a object which behaves weird.

  if already_in_server
        bookmark_obj = array_already_bookmarked.detect {|bookmark| bookmark.article_doi == article_doi["doi"]}
        if 1 == article_doi["isbookmarked"]
          binding.pry
          bookmark_obj.updated_at = Time.now
          bookmark_obj.save
        else
          bookmark_obj.destroy
        end
 end

Association between them:

up has_many -----> bookmarks
bookmark belongs_to --> up

But when I try to call up.bookmarks, It also returns destroyed objects and

bookmark_obj.updated_at = Time.now 

is not updated.

Answer 1

Use Reload which will reloads the record from the database. so after you save record you can do:

if already_in_server
    bookmark_obj = array_already_bookmarked.detect {|bookmark| bookmark.article_doi == article_doi["doi"]}
    if 1 == article_doi["isbookmarked"]
      binding.pry
      bookmark_obj.updated_at = Time.now
      bookmark_obj.save
      bookmark_obj.reload   # Add this line
    else
      bookmark_obj.destroy
    end
end  

and in case of deleted then you will need to reload the other relation, as you mentioned up has_many bookmarks

bookmark_obj.destroy
up.bookmarks # this one will contain the destroyed bookmark 
up.reload    # reload to retrieve fresh list
up.bookmarks # will not contain the destroyed bookmark