I am working through the Getting Started tutorial (creating a Blog) and the link_to Destroy is not functioning properly. In the terminal it always interprets it as #SHOW.
In reading similar issues I have learned that the Delete must be converted to a POST for the browser to interpret it. This doesn't seem to be happening.
I have run into the same problem using Destroy in the Lynda.com Rails course as well, so it leads me to believe it is something in my development environment. I am using Rails 4, Ruby 2.00p274, MySQL, WEBrick for the HTTP server on a MacBook Pro Lion.
in the terminal session when Destroy is selected:
Started GET "/posts/4" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-08-09 13:45:20 -0600
Processing by PostsController#show as HTML
Parameters: {"id"=>"4"}
Post Load (0.6ms) SELECT "posts".* FROM "posts" WHERE "posts"."id" = ? LIMIT 1 [["id", "4"]]
Rendered posts/show.html.erb within layouts/application (0.4ms)
Completed 200 OK in 13ms (Views: 8.6ms | ActiveRecord: 0.6ms)
In the ports-controller.rb:
def destroy
@post = Post.find(params[:id])
@post.destroy
redirect_to action: :index
end
In the index.html.erb:
<% @posts.each do |post| %>
<tr>
<td><%= post.title %></td>
<td><%= post.text %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Show', post %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_post_path(post) %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Destroy', { action: :destroy, id: post.id }, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' } %></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
In the routes.rb
Blog::Application.routes.draw do
resources :posts do
resources :comments
end
root to: 'welcome#index'
end
