Projects have many rooms. When I delete a project from the view, the associated rooms are not deleted. Rooms also have many products which should also be deleted when a project is deleted. Project class class Project < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user has_many :rooms, dependent: :destroy has_many :products, through: :rooms end Projects Controller class ProjectsController < ApplicationController def destroy @project = current_user.projects.find(params[:id]) if @project.delete redirect_to user_projects_path(@project.user) end end end Rooms Controller class RoomsController < ApplicationController def destroy @room = Room.find(params[:id]) if @room.delete redirect_to root_path end end The delete link in the projects show view. = link_to "Delete", project_room_path(room.project, room), method: :delete, data: { confirm: "Are you sure?" }, title: room.title, class: "btn btn-danger"