[Rails] Re: Questions on Managing Complex Objects

[James Britt]

David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

>> Do I need to code up 'before_destroy' someplace, and loop over owned 
>> collections and explicitly call 'destroy' on each item?
> 
> 
> class Person
>   has_many :phones, :dependent => true
> end
> 
> ...by setting dependent to true, AR knows that it should destroy the 
> phones when the person is destroyed.

Ah, quite sweet.

Perhaps this should be in the tutorial?


Thanks,

James