Question

How do you perform delete and put operations restfully in rails? I have read the documentation and thought I was doing everything properly, but I can’t seem to get it to work.

For example, if I wanted to delete an employee I would create a controller called ‘EmployeesController’ and create a destroy method to perform the delete.

Then I went into the routes.rb file and entered map.resources :employees, which gives you access to the URL helper functions.

In whatever I want to call the Ajax operation from, I should just have a line like:

<%= link_to_remote 'Delete', employee_path(@employee), :method => :delete %> 

When I click on the link, it is still is sending a POST operation, so it does nothing.

What am I missing or doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try

:url => employee_url(@employee) 

IIRC, *_path is a named route generated by the :resource directive which includes the method, thus overwriting your :method => :delete