# Deleting Users in rails console

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-users-in-rails-console/141540>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [February 13, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-users-in-rails-console/141540 "2020-02-13T19:26:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-users-in-rails-console/141540/5 "2020-07-02T16:00:03Z")

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I see this error. I found the user by username. (Unable to use email for some reason)

```plaintext
Discourse::InvalidAccess: can_delete_user? failed
from /var/www/discourse/lib/guardian/ensure_magic.rb:11:in `method_missing'

```

The command

```plaintext
UserDestroyer.new(Discourse.system_user).destroy(User.find_by(username: "someuserwhocertainlyexists"), delete_posts: true)

```

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