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Destroy Products

Understand how to implement the destroy action for user products in a Rails API. Learn to authenticate users using JWT tokens, delete products securely, and test the functionality. This lesson guides you through adding routes and validating authorization to ensure only owners can delete their products.

Our last stop for the product endpoints will be the destroy action. The strategy here will be similar to the create and update actions in that we’ll get the logged user with a JWT token, fetch the product from the user.products association, and finally destroy it, returning a 204 code.

Define the destroy action

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