ActiveRecord `readonly? = true` is preventing `destroy`

Question

According to all the documentation and tutorials I've found, defining the following method in my ActiveRecord subclass (AuthenticationToken) should prevent saving changes to an existing record, but not prevent it from being created or destroyed:

def readonly?
    !new_record?
end

However, calling token.destroy throws "AuthenticationToken is marked as readonly". For now I am using token.delete, which is acceptable because the model has no children, but I'd like to be able to use destroy. I'm using Rails 4.2.5.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 11 '16 at 20:10

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I think adding

before_destroy { true }

would allow you to destroy the object.

answered Feb 11 '16 at 20:10

Andrey Deineko

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@TGPrankster can you put `binding.pry` into `before_destroy` and see, if that is being called? – Andrey Deineko Feb 11 '16 at 21:07

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 31 '17 at 21:51

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Use delete instead, it will be able to delete records marked as readonly

answered May 31 '17 at 21:51

Lane

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As a word of caution: this bypasses callbacks and association checks – phaedryx Jun 17 '22 at 18:30

ActiveRecord `readonly? = true` is preventing `destroy`

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