Has_and_belongs_to won't delete records

Rails
1

Hi,
I have a has_and_belongs_to relationship between 2 objects, order and
product. I’m getting a foreign key violation when trying to delete
Order. Is there a special way of deleting orders without deleting
products? (“has_many” has :dependant => :delete_all… does
“has_and_belongs_to” have something similar)

Trying:
Order.delete_all

Getting:
Mysql::Error: #23000Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key
constraint fails: DELETE FROM orders

With associations:
class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
has_and_belongs_to_many :products
end

class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
has_and_belongs_to_many :orders
end

Thanks, Bart

2

Solved… automatic deletion just doesn’t work with
has_and_belongs_to_many.
I need to use has_many :through, :dependent => delete_all

Bart