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Asked: 2026-05-30T22:42:08+00:00

I am using the following to try and set a PUT method on the

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I am using the following to try and set a PUT method on the form but it is still doing a post. I have referred to the docs and it seems like im doing this right.

form_for @firm, html: {autocomplete: "off"}, url: firm_path, method: :put do |f|
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  1. Editorial Team

    It does this because browsers don’t support PUT/DELETE very well. You can read more about this in the Rails Guides:

    However, most browsers don’t support methods other than “GET” and
    “POST” when it comes to submitting forms.

    Rails works around this issue by emulating other methods over POST
    with a hidden input named "_method", which is set to reflect the
    desired method.

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