Delete not working in crud functionality (rails)

Question

I am having something is not working within my controller in that the specific items that I have in my app are not deleting when the button is being hit. I've tried adding a binding.pry right at the beginning of my destroy method, and its not getting hit. As a result i'm not sure what I am doing wrong that is keeping my items from being deleted without using the rails console.

Would anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

My controller

class ItemsController < ApplicationController
before_action :find_item, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]

def destroy
   @item.destroy
   redirect_to root_path
 end

end

My show page

%h1= @item.title
%h3= @item.description

= link_to "Home", root_path
= link_to "Edit", edit_item_path(@item)
= link_to "Delete", item_path(@item), method: :delete, data: {confirm: "Are you sure?"}

My routes page is like:

Rails.application.routes.draw do
 resources :items
 root 'items#index'
end

My application.js file I have this

//= require jquery
//= require bootstrap-sprockets
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require turbolinks
//= require_tree

Answer 1

I don't see any delete queries in your destroy action.

Try:

def destroy
  if @item.destroy
    redirect_to root_path
  else
    # Unable to delete ...
  end
end

Now the item should be deleted from the database and the user redirected after that.