Question

I’m trying to make my application work with DELETE action without javascript.

Evrything work as long as my app/view/layout/application.html.haml file do contain the following :

!!! 5
%html

  %head
    %title My application
    = stylesheet_link_tag    'screen', :media => 'screen, print, projection'
    /[if IE]
      // CSS for IE
    = javascript_include_tag 'application'
    = csrf_meta_tags

  %body
    ...

If I remove the = javascript_include_tag 'application' instruction. I can no more delete any record.
Rails is instead performing a SHOW action.

Any idea ?

Answer 1

Ryan Bates made a nice RailsCasts episode on this issue: Destroy without JavaScript.

He simply suggests to add an extra GET member route which will lead to the same controller action when JS is disabled.