JNUC2019 Lab Session J Deleting Things

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• Let's now delete the 5 computers we created for the lab

• There are two ways to delete API objects in ruby-jss

1. If you already have a fetched instance of the object, you can just call its delete method
   • Lets delete the computer we just fetched a moment ago:

comp_to_check.delete
# => nil

2. If you haven't fetched the thing yet, you can use the delete method on the class itself
   • It takes an array of ids, which we happen to have already in group.member_ids

• This is faster if you haven't fetched, because fetching an object can be slow

JSS::Computer.delete my_grp.member_ids
# => [568]

• This method returns another array of the ids that it did not delete, because they didn't exist

• In this case, that's the id of the individual one we deleted above

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