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    Hi Friends,

    In my previous blog Rails Active Records Callbacks: Part 1, I explained about why these callbacks are required and also discussed about some of the useful methods available in rails active records during creation and saving of the objects. Today I will talk about some more callbacks available in active records. Few of them are:

    Callbacks that are called during deletion of an object.


    a) before_destroy:

    It gets called before the object is destroyed, It is used in a case such that if you want to retrieve few things before the object is removed.

    b) around_destroy:

    It gets called along with the object is being destroyed. So it gets called between the before_destroy and after_destroy.

    c) after_destroy:

    It gets called after the object is destroyed.


    Lets take an example to understand how they are getting called:

    class TestUser < ActiveRecord::Base
    
        after_destroy :call_after_destroy
    
        before_destroy :call_before_destroy
    
        around_destroy :call_around_destroy
    
        before_update :call_this
    
        def call_before_destroy
             puts "Within Before Destroy"
        end
    
        def call_after_destroy
            puts "Within After Destroy"
        end
    
        def call_around_destroy
            puts "Within Around Destroy"
        end
    end

    ## Now try in console

    u = TestUser.create(phone_number: "9876543210")
     (0.2ms)  begin transaction
      SQL (0.6ms)  INSERT INTO "test_users" ("phone_number", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES (?, ?, ?)  [["phone_number", "9876543210"], ["created_at", "2016-06-08 17:04:42.102906"], ["updated_at", "2016-06-08 17:04:42.102906"]]
       (116.8ms)  commit transaction
     => #<TestUser id: 3, phone_number: "9876543210", created_at: "2016-06-08 17:04:42", updated_at: "2016-06-08 17:04:42">
    
     u.destroy
    
        (0.1ms)  begin transaction
    Within Before Destroy
    Within Around Destroy
    Within After Destroy
       (0.1ms)  rollback transaction
     => nil

    Thus you have seen the order in which they gets called.


    Relational Callbacks:

     Suppose there are 2 related objects Company and Employee, So if company is destroyed after that you want to destroy all of its employees. So in this case there are relational callbacks that are used. So in this case we can specify the callback during specifying the relation like in our case:

     class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
         has_many :employees, dependent: :destroy
     end
    
     class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base
         belongs_to :company
     end

     In above example dependent: :destroy works as an callback so it the company is removed all of its associated employees are also removed.

     Hope you liked this blog. Will talk about some more active record related topics soon.

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