Question

sorry if this is a dumb Q, this is my first Rails3 project…

For some reason, this <%= link_to 'edit', edit_geofence_path(geofence) %>

renders as <a href="/geofence/edit.2">edit</a> (my geofence’s id is 2).

And <%= link_to 'delete', {:action=>'destroy', :id=>geofence}, :confirm=>"You sure?", :method=> :delete %>

renders as <a href="/geofence?id=2" data-confirm="You sure?" data-method="delete" rel="nofollow">delete</a>,

which might be fine, but clicking the link generates this in the logs Started GET "/geofence?id=2". So, not DELETE, just GET.

My routes.rb file is just resource :geofence.

On a related note, for some reason the default action for a geofence is “show”. So /geofence/ DOES NOT call the index method, it calls the show method. I think that also must be wrong.

I’m done cursing at this app for now, I’m going to take a day to cool off and hopefully get this SIMPLE SCAFFOLD working tomorrow night… Help me, stackoverflow! You’re my only hope!

Answer 1

<%= link_to 'delete', {:action=>'destroy', :id=>geofence}, :confirm=>"You sure?", :method=> :delete %>

should be:

<%= link_to 'delete', {:action=>'destroy', :id=>geofence}, :confirm=>"You sure?", :method=> :delete, :remote => true %>

Without :remote => true, the click isn’t handled by javascript.

And in your routes.rb file, you should have that defined as:

resources :geofence

Setting it as resource implies that there is only one, and is causing a lot of your weird behavior.