Searching for deleted topics with a keyword in title

[IAmGav (Gavin Perch)]

look at this query and modify it as needed.

Delete deleted-posts permanently in bulk?

Excellent, glad to hear that did the job for you. So for the sake of combining the answers, one can use the following in the Rails console to destroy all topics that were deleted more than 90 days ago, repeating as many times as necessary if there are more than 1000 topics: Topic.with_deleted.where(deleted_at: ...90.days.ago).limit(1000).destroy_all After that has completed, the following can be used to destroy all posts that have been orphaned from destroyed topics: Post.find_by_sql("select …