rails confirm before delete

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overflow picture overflow · Oct 25, 2013 · Viewed 39.8k times · Source

Here is my rails link_to 

<%= link_to 'Delete',url_for(action: :delete,id: @user.id),data: {confirm: "Are you sure?"} %>

I tried the above method but it is directly deleting without any alert message. What wrong I made. Can any one correct it.

Answer

userxyz picture userxyz · Oct 25, 2013

Try this

<%= link_to 'Delete',url_for(action: :delete,id: @user.id),method: :delete, data: {confirm: "Are you sure?"} %>

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