clean all records

rubyonrails-talk
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hi @ all How can I clean all records from a table in a mysql database without delete the table in the database? (only use a method in the model)

thanks for helping!

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Take a look at destroy_all

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M001384

Aaron

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Actually, delete_all might be a better bet in this case because it runs without instantiating the records first.

Aaron

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Is this for your development environment and are you using test fixtures? If so you can easily load test fixtures into your development database by running "rake db:fixtures:load".

Aaron

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Aaron wrote:

Is this for your development environment and are you using test fixtures?

No, but I want to copy / overwrite an existing table with rake in the same environment. Is it possible with rake? Or with an other solution?

For example: I have a table people and I want to copy this table into the guests table.