Models Pruning in Laravel 8.50.0 explained

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Laravel has released a new feature in its new version 8.50.0 which is called “Models Pruning”, this feature will take care of the old records that you don’t want to exist anymore in your database, with this new feature you will not need to generate a new Job class for your models, You will be running just one command in your App\Console\Kernel.

Now, Let’s say we want to delete the old records of an Event Model which we don’t need anymore, we would like to delete all the records that are older than one week:

// App\Models\Event;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Prunable;
class Event 
{
    /**
    * Get the prunable model query.
    *
    * @return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder
    */
    public function prunable()
    {
        return static::where('created_at', '<=', now()->subDays(7));
    }
}

Let’s say we want to execute some kind of operations while “pruning” the records:

protected function pruning()
{
    // Eg: Send email to admin
}

Now let’s make this work:

// App\Console\Kernel
protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
    $schedule->command('model:prune')->weekly();
}

In case we want to “prun” records of more than one record

$schedule->command('model:prune', [
    '--model' => [Event::class, Booking::class],
])->daily();

See more features in this release (8.50.0): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr58h0IKjkM

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