Rails 4 link_to Destroy not working in Getting Started tutorial

Question

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. <

Answer 1

I had exactly this problem and it was caused by triple-clicking the Guide's code block and copy/pasting the code straight into my editor (ST2 on OSX).

You should check that the generated HTML for the link looks like this:

Destroy Comment

If it doesn't, but instead looks like the below, then the Javascript won't be applied:

Destroy Comment

The large gaps between the href and the unparsed Ruby are caused by the non-breaking spaces (unicode character \u00a0) used in the Guide being copied into your script.

I'm not sure why this doesn't cause a script parse error.