before_destroy and protecting some records

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I want to delete some "Accounts' that have dependent "Users", however I want to skip users tagged is_power. I want to do this by resetting the users to a master account id.

In my User model I have the following code:

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before_destroy :reset_power_users

def reset_power_users   users = User.find_by_account_id_and_is_power(account.id, true)   users.each {|user| update_attribute(:account_id, 1)} end

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I'm not sure the variables I'm passing are correct, but it's not throwing and error and deleting all users under the current account.

Thanks in advance for taking a look :slight_smile:

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before_destroy :reset_power_users

def reset_power_users users = User.find_by_account_id_and_is_power(account.id, true) users.each {|user| update_attribute(:account_id, 1)} end

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I'm not sure the variables I'm passing are correct, but it's not throwing and error and deleting all users under the current account.

Well at the very least it's not working because find_by_xxx is analogous to find :first (ie returns a single record or nil). The find :all equivalent is find_all_by_xxx

Fred