Restful delete is driving me nuts...

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Hi,

In my project, all delete links aren't working. They keep acting as "show" action.

Here is an example for the announcements controller.

In routes.rb :

map.resources :announcements

In my index view, I have the standard <%= link_to 'Destroy', announcement, :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete %>

But when ever I click on the link, controller gets a "get" message, not a "delete".

Processing AnnouncementsController#show (for 127.0.0.1 at 2009-03-02 14:01:23) [GET]   Session ID: 95ccbfa93eef0bf8408147c7b6b9a287   Parameters: {"action"=>"show", "id"=>"2", "controller"=>"announcements", "locale"=>"en"}

In order to get the delete working I had to create a new named route.

map.annoucements_delete "announcements/:id/ delete", :controller=>"announcements", :action => "destroy"

<%= link_to 'delete', annoucements_delete_path(announcement), :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete %>

It works, but it is ugly.

What did I do wrong ? Thanks Jean-Loup

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In my very very small example, the following works for me:

<%= link_to “delete”, announcement**_path(announcement), :confirm => “Are you sure?”, :method => :delete%>**

Good luck,

-Conrad

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Do you have javascript enabled in the browser you're testing the delete action with?

<%= link_to 'Destroy', announcement, :method => :delete %> produces an anchor tag to the show action but with a bunch of javascript code to emulate the DELETE http method.