Attachments associate records with blobs. Usually that's a one record-many blobs relationship, but it is possible to associate many different records with the same blob. A foreign-key constraint on the attachments table prevents blobs from being purged if theyโ€™re still attached to any records.

Methods

Instance Public methods

purge()

Synchronously deletes the attachment and purges the blob.

๐Ÿ“ Source code
# File activestorage/app/models/active_storage/attachment.rb, line 20
  def purge
    delete
    blob&.purge
  end
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purge_later()

Deletes the attachment and enqueues a background job to purge the blob.

๐Ÿ“ Source code
# File activestorage/app/models/active_storage/attachment.rb, line 26
  def purge_later
    delete
    blob&.purge_later
  end
๐Ÿ”Ž See on GitHub