How do you delete an ActiveRecord object?

Question

How do you delete an ActiveRecord object?

I looked at Active Record Querying and it does not have anything on deleting that I can see.

1. Delete by

Answer 1

There is delete, delete_all, destroy, and destroy_all.

The docs are: older docs and Rails 3.0.0 docs

delete doesn't instantiate the objects, while destroy does. In general, delete is faster than destroy.