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Ruby

Pol Guixe Jove
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Pol Guixe Jove
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Posted by Pol Guixe Jove
Pol Guixe Jove
Courses Plus Student 5,948 Points

How does Ruby on Rails know that when calling method: :delete it needs to use the method destroy in the controller?

In the ODOT app, when implementing the delete function for the todo list items we need to add a Delete link: 

<%= link_to "Delete", todo_list_todo_item_path(item), method: :delete, data: {confirm: "Are you sure?"} %>

the specified method: is :delete, but when running the test the failure appears because it couldn't find method destroy

Failures:

  1) Deleting todo items is succesfull
     Failure/Error: click_link "Delete"
     AbstractController::ActionNotFound:
       The action 'destroy' could not be found for TodoItemsController
     # ./spec/features/todo_items/delete_spec.rb:18:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
     # ./spec/features/todo_items/delete_spec.rb:17:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

How does Ruby on Rails know that when calling method: :delete needs to execute method destroy in the todo_items_controller?

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

How does it know that index uses GET? Why does create use POST? It's just designed this way I suppose.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/778385/rails-post-put-get