This PR adds a destroy:posts rake task that can be used to hard-delete a list of posts. Useful for dealing with large amounts of spam that has been soft deleted and needs to go.
Notes:
Works on both non-deleted and soft-deleted posts. (We might want to change this to work on only soft-deleted posts?)
Works exclusively on post IDs. We can't mix topic and post IDs as they might clash, and we have no way of resolving that ambiguity.
Accepts either a rake-style array of IDs or, more conveniently, you can pipe the argument in through STDIN.
Added a confirmation step since it's a fairly destructive operation.
Also:
* Remove an unused method (#fill_email)
* Replace a method that was used just once (#generate_username) with `SecureRandom.alphanumeric`
* Remove an obsolete dev puma `tmp/restart` file logic
Follow up to: [FEATURE: Create a rake task for destroying categories][1]
- `Discourse.system_user` is my friend
- Remove puts statements from rake tasks that don't return anything
- `for_each` is also my friend
- Use `human_users` to also exclude discobot
- Sort/format categories:list
[1]: 092eeb5ca3
Created a rake task for destroying multiple categories along with any
subcategories and topics the belong to those categories.
Also created a rake task for listing all of your categories.
Refactored existing destroy rake tasks to use new logging method, that
allows for puts output in the console but prevents it from showing in
the specs.
This reduces chances of errors where consumers of strings mutate inputs
and reduces memory usage of the app.
Test suite passes now, but there may be some stuff left, so we will run
a few sites on a branch prior to merging
Adds several rake tasks to delete users, topics, pm's and site stats so
that you can have a fresh site but maintain site settings and category
structure.
