Implement role cleanup on professor/student deletion to prevent orphaned user roles #575
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This PR addresses a critical data consistency issue where deleting a Professor or Student linked to a User would leave the User in an inconsistent state with orphaned roles.
Problem
Currently, when a Professor or Student is deleted, any linked User retains their Professor/Student role even though the corresponding entity no longer exists. This violates the system's constraint that users with Professor or Student roles must be linked to actual Professor/Student records.
For example, a user like this:

Would be left with the Professor role even after their associated Professor record is deleted, creating an inconsistent state.
Solution
This implementation adds
before_destroycallbacks to both Professor and Student models that automatically handle role cleanup when these entities are deleted:Key Features:
actual_roleupdated appropriatelyCode Changes:
Test Coverage:
Benefits
Fixes #574.
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