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Ruby Rails Routes and Resources A Route to a Delete Action Deleting Pages

Danish Saleem
Danish Saleem
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Posted by Danish Saleem
Danish Saleem
7,965 Points

No route matches [DELETE] "/pages/4"

Hi when i apply the delete method and try to delete one of my record i get this error No route matches [DELETE] "/pages/4"

although i have already defined the route in route.rb file

plz help

Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
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Ethan Rivas
Ethan Rivas
9,979 Points

Can you tell me what your console returns if you enter this command?: rake routes

1 Answer

Shahzaib Awan
Shahzaib Awan
13,767 Points
Shahzaib Awan
Shahzaib Awan
13,767 Points

instead of custom routes use resources 'pages' in your route.rb file and define deleted method on that link which leads to delete a page like this <%= link_to 'Delete', page_path(some_page_id) method: :delete %>