Method: Discordrb::Channel#delete_messages

Defined in:
lib/discordrb/data/channel.rb

#delete_messages(messages, strict = false, reason = nil) ⇒ Integer

Deletes a collection of messages

Parameters:

  • messages (Array<Message, String, Integer>) —

    the messages (or message IDs) to delete. Total must be an amount between 2 and 100 (Discord limitation)

  • strict (true, false) (defaults to: false) —

    Whether an error should be raised when a message is reached that is too old to be bulk deleted. If this is false only a warning message will be output to the console.

  • reason (String, nil) (defaults to: nil) —

    The reason for deleting the messages

Returns:

  • (Integer) —

    The amount of messages that were successfully deleted

Raises:

  • (ArgumentError) —

    if the amount of messages is not a value between 2 and 100



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# File 'lib/discordrb/data/channel.rb', line 631

def delete_messages(messages, strict = false, reason = nil)
  raise ArgumentError, 'Can only delete between 2 and 100 messages!' unless messages.count.between?(2, 100)

  messages.map!(&:resolve_id)
  bulk_delete(messages, strict, reason)
end