Question

What I want to do is destroy a specific ActiveRecord from jQuery, which is within an .html.erb file that has the record I want to destroy as an instance variable (@connection). I tried various attempts with jQuery.ajax, but nothing worked. Any help is much appreciated.

I thought the fix worked, but it didn’t. I got this, which works if I run it in the javascript console:

$.ajax({
  type:"DELETE",
  url:"<%= connection_path(@connection) %>",
  success: function(msg){
    alert("disconnected");
  }
});

But when its supposed run in my javascript it does not. I’m so confused.

Answer 1

You’ll need to create the destroy action in your connection controller, which will receive the connection id. Then in your view call that action using @connection.id as the parameter.

Edit

For the JQuery part, you can use something like this:

$.post(<%= destroy_connection_path(@connection) %>, {_method:'delete'}, null, "script");