Prunable and MassPrunable — Cleaning Up Old Records

Production applications accumulate records over time: expired tokens, old log entries, soft-deleted rows that were never fully removed. Laravel's Prunable and MassPrunable traits let you define exactly which records should be cleaned up and automate that process with a scheduler.

Prunable

Add the Prunable trait to your model and define a prunable() method returning the query that selects records to delete.

app/Models/PasswordResetToken.php:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Prunable;
 
class PasswordResetToken extends Model
{
    use Prunable; 
 
    public function prunable(): Builder 
    {
        return static::where('created_at', '<', now()->subDays(7));
    }
}

Running the artisan command will delete all...