Question

I find it confusing that there is an ActiveRecord delete as well as destroy.

In my Controller I want to delete a user in my delete action.

The result would be that this instance represented by the User model no longer exists in the database.

Which method should I use for this?

Answer 1

delete is faster as it bypasses callbacks, but by that same reason it’s less functional; destroy is therefore a safer way to go, unless you positively know the callbacks are unnecessary in a specific case.