items.destroy doesn't work

rubyonrails-talk
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why doesn't this work items.destroy if items = find(:all, :conditions => ...)

right now i have this that works, but it seems ugly and inefficient.

if items = find(:all, :conditions => ...)   items.each do |item|     item.destroy   end end

there must be a better way

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How about

Item.destroy_all(conditions)

Which will call the destroy callback methods (slow if you are destroying many records).

If you don't care about callbacks, use delete_all instead.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M001974