Rails 3 :method=> :delete doesn't work in Internet Explorer

Question

I am going through the rails 3 tutorial at railstutorial.org. I have just created an extremely simple scaffold Users.

The scaffold-generated destroy link does not wo

Answer 1

By default, new rails projects are created with Prototype javascript libraries, with some prototype-specific helper functions in "public/javascript/rails.js". The scaffolding relies on some of these helpers to handle some things, like destroying a record, since there isn't a good javascript-free way of making a DELETE request, etc.

Make sure that your pages are loading both the javascript libraries and the "rails.js" file, which are needed to make the scaffolding work (see theschmitzer's answer, or check in Firebug).

Second, if you are using jQuery, install the 'jquery-rails' gem and then run "rails g jquery:install". This will remove the Prototype libraries, install the jQuery libraries, and update the helpers to use jQuery.