Rails Remove child association from parent

Question

I have this (Contract and Accessory are associated with has_and_belongs_to_many):

# Get the contract and specific accessory based on params @contract  = Contract.find(params[:id]) @accessory = @contract.accessories.find(params[:accessory_id]) 

Now, I'm wanting to remove that specific accessory from @contract. I don't want to delete the record from the DB, but simply want to remove the association between the two.

What's the railsy way of doing this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

How about this:

@contract.accessories.delete(@accessory) 

See also: How do I remove a single HABTM associated item without deleting the item itself?