Child record becomes orphan

Hi all,

I’ve got these company (has) contacts relational tables. I want to make
sure a
company can’t be deleted when it still has contacts. (because I can now,
which results in nil like errors when listing the contacts …
obviously)

Are there any helpers to do so, is Rails aware of this? Or do I need to
put in
a condition before destroying the company record in question myself?

def destroy_company

Haven’t figured out the syntax yet so don’t laugh about the line

below.
if Contact.find_all(params[:company_id]) == Company.find(params[:id])
<<<
flash[:notice] = ‘This company has contacts.’
redirect_to :action => ‘show_company’, :id => @company.id
else
Company.find(params[:id]).destroy
redirect_to :action => ‘list_companies’
end
end

Thanx Regards,

Gerard.


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