Delete a room's messages in a job, one transaction each

Room#destroy destroyed every message inside the room's own
transaction, which holds SQLite's write lock until the last one: on a
room with many messages, every other write in the app waited and
failed. The request now takes the room away from its members and
leaves the rest to Room::DestroyJob, which destroys the messages one
at a time, each in its own short transaction, and then the room.

An open room is closed in the request, so that someone who joins the
account before the job ends isn't given it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Bj8KnxpTf9sj2Ysa8aLAVa
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Marcello Costagliola
2026-10-05 20:41:55 +02:00
parent 32b4144b52
commit 7b16014f01
6 changed files with 93 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ class RoomsController < ApplicationController
end
def destroy
@room.destroy
@room.destroy_later
broadcast_remove_room
redirect_to root_url
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@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
class Room::DestroyJob < ApplicationJob
discard_on ActiveJob::DeserializationError
def perform(room)
room.destroy_one_message_at_a_time
end
end
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@@ -45,6 +45,27 @@ class Room < ApplicationRecord
end
end
# Takes the room away from its members at once, and leaves its messages to Room::DestroyJob. Destroying them in
# the room's own transaction held the database's write lock, and stopped every other write, until the last one.
# An open room is closed first, so that no one who joins the account before the job runs is let in.
def destroy_later
room = open? ? becomes!(Rooms::Closed) : self
transaction do
room.save!
room.memberships.delete_all
end
Room::DestroyJob.perform_later(room)
end
# Each message is destroyed in its own transaction, so other writes get through in between. Any message posted
# meanwhile goes with the room.
def destroy_one_message_at_a_time
messages.find_each(&:destroy)
destroy
end
def receive(message)
unread_memberships(message)
push_later(message)