Moving from sub-categories to tags?

[tshenry (Taylor)]

Hmm, you would need to have console access in order to run any of the bulk operations scripts/tasks. On our hosting we are happy to run one-off bulk operation scripts/task for customers, so I would reach out to your hosting provider and see if they can take care of it for you.

In my mind, this is how I would handle your steps:

1. Easy enough to do from the UI
2. Bulk Tag All Topics Within a Category
3. Move all topics from one category to another
4. Either through the UI or rake destroy:categories[10,11,12,18,30]
5. Probably easiest through the UI
6. UI
7. UI

@Tayyab_Anwar

I’ve figured out how to do this all through the API. Already written the code for it, too.
I’m just wondering if it’d be more efficient to do this with migrations?

There shouldn’t be any need to do anything with db:migrate. If you can have your hosting provider run the necessary bulk operations tasks for you, then that would be more efficient than using the API.

I would check on whether your hosting provider will run the task first then decide what to do from there.