How to delete all the rows in a table using Eloquent?

Question

My guess was to use the following syntax:

MyModel::all()->delete();

But that did not work. I\'m sure it\'s super simple, but I\'ve searched

Answer 1

The best way for accomplishing this operation in Laravel 3 seems to be the use of the Fluent interface to truncate the table as shown below

DB::query("TRUNCATE TABLE mytable");