How do I 'validate' on destroy in rails

Question

On destruction of a restful resource, I want to guarantee a few things before I allow a destroy operation to continue? Basically, I want the ability to stop the destroy oper

Answer 1

The ActiveRecord associations has_many and has_one allows for a dependent option that will make sure related table rows are deleted on delete, but this is usually to keep your database clean rather than preventing it from being invalid.