Question

The command I’m trying to execute from the terminal:

curl "http://acme.example.com/controller_name/destroy.xml?api_key=123&id=150&other_id=430"

Just a simple GET request, nothing special there.

But when I do that, I get this error:

ActionController::RoutingError 
(No route matches "/controller_name/destroy.xml" with 
{:remote_ip=>"127.0.0.1", 
 :accepts=>"*/*", 
 :protocol=>"http://", 
 :subdomain=>"acme", 
 :method=>:get, 
 :request_uri=>"/controller_name/destroy.xml?api_key=123&id=150&other_id=430", 
 :port=>80, 
 :content_type=>nil, 
 :domain=>"example.com"}):

So then I added this to my routes.rb file:

  map.connect "/controller_name/destroy", :controller => :controller_name, :action => :destroy

But I get the same error, so the route I added doesn’t help at all.

Here is the destroy method from controller_name

  def destroy
    @other = Other.find(params[:other_id])
    attachment = @other.attachments.find(params[:id])
    attachment.destroy

    @attachments = @other.attachments

    respond_to do |format|
      format.xml do
        head :ok 
      end
    end
  end

In routes.rb, the controller_name is just included this way:

  map.resources :others, :has_many => [:controller_names]

and all the AJAX things already in the controller work fine… even for the same method, calling destroy with an AJAX request works…. but not the XML portion….. >_<

Answer 1

Looks like you are missing the format on the request.

map.connect "/controller_name/destroy(.:format)", :controller => :controller_name, :action => :destroy