Question

I am using rails beta 3 and I have a erb page named index.html.erb for discussions controller. In that page, I have a link as following:

<%= link_to 'Delete', {:action=>'destroy', :id=>@discussion}, :confirm=>"Are you sure", :method=>'post' %>

Which is supposed to generate a link to delete a discussion, however, the generated html is

<a href="/discussions/1" data-confirm="Are you sure" data-method="post" rel="nofollow">Delete</a>

Which always routes to the show action. I think the href should be /discussions/destroy/1. But for some reason it is not.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

That is the correct href, but the method should be :delete. You also need to make sure you’re properly set up with the new unobtrusive javascript way of doing things in rails 3. You might need to add the csrf_meta_tag helper, as described in this link:

http://blog.loopedstrange.com/modest-rubyist-archive/rails-3-ujs-and-csrf-meta-tags