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Ruby Active Record Associations in Rails More Association Options Destroying Dependent Models

Posted by keenanm
keenanm
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What happens if we destroy an associated record (for example, an Actor) but it is tied to both a Movie and a Show model?

If we add the dependent: :destroy option to the has_many association in the Movie model class, and destroy a movie record -- thereby destroying the actors associated with the movie -- but those same actors belong_to a television show that we haven't destroyed, what happens?