I'm following Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial, and for some reason the following code:
<%= link_to 'delete', user, :method => :delete, :confirm => "You sure?",
:title => "Delete #{user.name}" %>
Issues a GET request (as I verified by checking the rails server log). I also verified that the following line is in my application view:
<%= javascript_include_tag :all %>
One thing I didn't quite understand, and it's probably the source of my problem: where is the "delete" method defined? I verified in Hartl's source code that he defines a "destroy" method in the controller, not "delete". But even if I change the link_to to :method => :destroy, it just issues a GET.
I'm using Rails 3.1. Any tips?
Also check that this is in your application.js:
//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
Apparently I had the jquery without the jquery_ujs and I had the same problem until I added that.
Note that you may need to add these lines above any import statements within application.js.
Most browsers don't actually support the DELETE verb, so Rails fakes it by modifying the HTML it generates. Rails tacks on a HTML5 attribute called data-method
and sets it to "delete"
. So when a user clicks on the link, it is actually issued as a GET
request, but the data-method
attribute allows for some Rails magic and means your routing code should recognize it as a DELETE request.
edit:
You can test it yourself in the console. Run bundle exec rails c
to get into the console, and look at the HTML that this generates:
helper.link_to "delete", "foobar/delete", :method => 'delete'
The HTML should look like this:
<a href="foobar/delete" data-method="delete" rel="nofollow">delete</a>
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