Question

When I am on the index page and click on the delete link to destroy the post i get that error:

Unknown action

No action responded to delete. Actions: add, edit, and index

The edit link next to delete works with out a problem I do not understand why delete won’t work. This is what is in my controller car_controller.rb

def delete
    @car = Car.find(params[:id])
    flash[:notice] = "Question #{@car.name} deleted!"
    @car.destroy
    redirect_to :controller => :car, :action => :index
  end

map.connect ':controller/:action/:id'
  map.connect ':controller/:action/:id.:format'
  map.root :controller => "main"
  map.root :controller => "car"
end

Answer 1

Isn’t the action for delete actually destroy?

If you look at a controller that was generated as part of scaffold, you should see what the delete action maps to…

Rails provides the 7 classical RESTful actions out of the box when you generate the controller and each one has the actual URL + method commented above the action method…

# DELETE /subject_families/1
# DELETE /subject_families/1.xml
def destroy
  ...
end

I hope this helps…