Rails' link_to method: GETing when it should DELETE

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koggit picture koggit · Sep 19, 2011 · Viewed 56.9k times · Source

I'm following Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial, and for some reason the following code:

<%= link_to 'delete', user, :method => :delete, :confirm => "You sure?",
                                :title => "Delete #{user.name}" %>

Issues a GET request (as I verified by checking the rails server log). I also verified that the following line is in my application view:

<%= javascript_include_tag :all %>

One thing I didn't quite understand, and it's probably the source of my problem: where is the "delete" method defined? I verified in Hartl's source code that he defines a "destroy" method in the controller, not "delete". But even if I change the link_to to :method => :destroy, it just issues a GET.

I'm using Rails 3.1. Any tips?

Answer

Jamel Toms picture Jamel Toms · Dec 27, 2013

Also check that this is in your application.js:

//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs

Apparently I had the jquery without the jquery_ujs and I had the same problem until I added that.

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