I was expecting delete_all to be a more clever than what I''m seeing. I have an ActiveRecord::Relation which returns a bunch of records, but calling `delete_all` on that relation basically ignores any where condition and joins I used to find them. I think the right behaviour would be to delete those same returned records. Something like this: SubscriptionTagging.joins(%q{ LEFT OUTER JOIN subscriptions ON subscriptions.id = subscription_taggings.subscription_id }).where(''subscriptions.id IS NULL'').delete_all Should I open an issue on github? I''m using Rails 3.2.12. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.