Question

I have a controller which has no show action.

The current destroy looks like this:

        <td><%= link_to 'Destroy', subscriber, :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete %></td>

I do not want it to point to {subscriber}, as that route does not exist. Instead I want it to direct to the subscribers index

        <td><%= link_to 'Destroy', subscribers_path, :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete %></td>

However when I do this I get the following error:

No route matches [DELETE] "/subscribers"

What am I doing wrong here?

UPDATE:

These are my routes:

   resources :subscribers
  match 'subscribe' => 'Subscribers#subscribe'
  match 'unsubscribe' => 'Subscribers#unsubscribe'

Answer 1

As you say that route doesn’t exist, I assume you aren’t using resource routing. That means you probably have something like

match 'subscribers' => 'subscribers#index', :via => :get
get 'subscribers' => 'subscribers#index'

None of these will actually match a delete request, which you can verify by running rake routes from the app root.

You could adjust it like the following, to make it match:

match 'subscribers' => 'subscribers#index', :via => [ :get , :delete ]

Also, this might make more sense with more information, but it seems like the deviation from a more traditional REST-based approach may cause an unnecessary and possibly confusing lack of clarity while maintaining the application.