Route for nested delete

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I seem to be stuck on restful deletion.

I've got a person model and a wish model, a person has many wishes.

Here's my routes.rb (simplified)

  map.resources :people do |people|     people.resources :wishes   end

Now I want to be able to delete a wish, and I try a link to     person_wish_url(@wish.person, @wish, :method => :delete)

But the generated path doesn't seem to be recognized.

shadowfax:~/ssanta rick$ script/console Loading development environment (Rails 2.0.0)

include ActionController::UrlWriter

=> Object

person_wish_path(1, 2)

=> "/people/1/wishes/2"

person_wish_path(1, 2, :method => :delete)

=> "/people/1/wishes/2?method=delete"

irb ActionController::Routing::Routes recognize_path("/people/1/wishes/2")

ActionController::MethodNotAllowed: Only get, put, and delete requests are allowed.         from /Users/rick/ssanta/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1436:in `recognize_path'         from (irb#1):1

recognize_path("/people/1/wishes/2?method=delete")

ActionController::RoutingError: No route matches "/people/1/wishes/2?method=delete" with {}         from /Users/rick/ssanta/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1438:in `recognize_path'         from (irb#1):2

recognize_path("/people/1/wish/2?method=delete")

ActionController::RoutingError: No route matches "/people/1/wish/2?method=delete" with {}         from /Users/rick/ssanta/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:1438:in `recognize_path'         from (irb#1):3

Where am I going wrong?

2

By the way:

shadowfax:~/ssanta rick$ rake routes | grep wish                 person_wishes GET /people/:person_id/wishes            {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"index"}       formatted_person_wishes GET /people/:person_id/wishes.:format            {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"index"}                               POST /people/:person_id/wishes            {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"create"}                               POST /people/:person_id/wishes.:format            {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"create"}               new_person_wish GET /people/:person_id/wishes/new            {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"new"}     formatted_new_person_wish GET /people/:person_id/wishes/new.:format {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"new"}              edit_person_wish GET /people/:person_id/wishes/:id/edit {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"edit"}    formatted_edit_person_wish GET /people/:person_id/wishes/:id/edit.:format {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"edit"}                   person_wish GET /people/:person_id/wishes/:id            {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"show"}         formatted_person_wish GET /people/:person_id/wishes/:id.:format {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"show"}                               PUT /people/:person_id/wishes/:id            {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"update"}                               PUT /people/:person_id/wishes/:id.:format {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"update"}                               DELETE /people/:person_id/wishes/:id            {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"destroy"}                               DELETE /people/:person_id/wishes/:id.:format {:controller=>"wishes", :action=>"destroy"}

And this is on Rails 2.0

3

I figured it out, the method doesn't go inside the x_path/x_url call, but as an option to the link_to

D'oh!