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Destroy Users

Explore how to implement the destroy action in the users controller of a Rails API. Learn to define the delete function, add corresponding routes, and write tests to ensure proper user deletion with the correct HTTP status response.

We have built many actions on the users controller with quite a few tests, but are not done yet. We need one more action—the act of destruction—so let’s implement the DELETE function.

Define the destroy action

The implementation of the destroy action is also quite simple. We will add the following code to ...