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title: 'You can add the Prunable trait to soft-delete models from the database, but only remove them permanently after a few days'
tweet_id: '1459206733365084161'
thread_slug: weekly-thread-2021-45
author_username: Philo01
images:
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created_at: 2021-11-12T17:09:30+00:00
slug: you-can-add-the-prunable-trait-to-soft-delete-models-from-the-database-but-only-remove-them-permanently-after-a-few-days
---
Happy Monday 🙌 Let's start the week with a Laravel tip: You can use the Prunable trait to automatically remove models from your database. For example, you can permanently remove soft deleted models after a few days.