Delete / Destroy is not working in rails 3 with jQuery

Question

My delete/destroy is not working for Rails 3.

Not for any scaffold or even for new projects.

<%= link_to \'Destroy\', card, :confirm => \'Are y         


        

Answer 1

I ran into the same issue Mohit had and also needed to include the 'Unobtrusive JavaScript Library' (or 'ujs') in my JavaScript assets. In my current Rails (v3.2.5), the UJS library will be provided automatically. You can verify this by seeing the following line in your Gemfile:

gem 'jquery-rails'

and the following line in your app/assets/javascripts/application.js file:

//= require jquery_ujs

Since I didn't know any better, I had removed the require jquery_ujs line from my own application.js file, and it took me a while to figure out why my link_to ..., :method => :delete calls weren't working any more!

Once I understood the problem, it was easy to add the above two lines back to their respective files and everything started working as expected again.

Answer 2

Make sure that you include default Rails javascript files in your layout.

<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>

Answer 3

Make sure that you include default Rails javascript files in your layout.

<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>

Answer 4

If you are using Jquery not prototype then you need to add Jquery.rails.js in your project else everytime you try to delete anything it will take you to show page.

I dont remember from where I got the solution and this Jquery.rails.js file. But sure from some trust-able source.

Here is the code for that file. May be will help somebody.

jQuery(function ($) {
    var csrf_token = $('meta[name=csrf-token]').attr('content'),
        csrf_param = $('meta[name=csrf-param]').attr('content');

    $.fn.extend({
        /**
         * Triggers a custom event on an element and returns the event result
         * this is used to get around not being able to ensure callbacks are placed
         * at the end of the chain.
         *
         * TODO: deprecate with jQuery 1.4.2 release, in favor of subscribing to our
         *       own events and placing ourselves at the end of the chain.
         */
        triggerAndReturn: function (name, data) {
            var event = new $.Event(name);
            this.trigger(event, data);

            return event.result !== false;
        },

        /**
         * Handles execution of remote calls firing overridable events along the way
         */
        callRemote: function () {
            var el      = this,
                data    = el.is('form') ? el.serializeArray() : [],
                method  = el.attr('method') || el.attr('data-method') || 'GET',
                url     = el.attr('action') || el.attr('href');

            if (url === undefined) {
              throw "No URL specified for remote call (action or href must be present).";
            } else {
                if (el.triggerAndReturn('ajax:before')) {
                    $.ajax({
                        url: url,
                        data: data,
                        dataType: 'script',
                        type: method.toUpperCase(),
                        beforeSend: function (xhr) {
                            el.trigger('ajax:loading', xhr);
                        },
                        success: function (data, status, xhr) {
                            el.trigger('ajax:success', [data, status, xhr]);
                        },
                        complete: function (xhr) {
                            el.trigger('ajax:complete', xhr);
                        },
                        error: function (xhr, status, error) {
                            el.trigger('ajax:failure', [xhr, status, error]);
                        }
                    });
                }

                el.trigger('ajax:after');
            }
        }
    });

    /**
     *  confirmation handler
     */
    $('a[data-confirm],input[data-confirm]').live('click', function () {
        var el = $(this);
        if (el.triggerAndReturn('confirm')) {
            if (!confirm(el.attr('data-confirm'))) {
                return false;
            }
        }
    });


    /**
     * remote handlers
     */
    $('form[data-remote]').live('submit', function (e) {
        $(this).callRemote();
        e.preventDefault();
    });
    $('a[data-remote],input[data-remote]').live('click', function (e) {
        $(this).callRemote();
        e.preventDefault();
    });

    $('a[data-method]:not([data-remote])').live('click', function (e){
        var link = $(this),
            href = link.attr('href'),
            method = link.attr('data-method'),
            form = $('<form method="post" action="'+href+'">'),
            metadata_input = '<input name="_method" value="'+method+'" type="hidden" />';

        if (csrf_param != null && csrf_token != null) {
          metadata_input += '<input name="'+csrf_param+'" value="'+csrf_token+'" type="hidden" />';
        }

        form.hide()
            .append(metadata_input)
            .appendTo('body');

        e.preventDefault();
        form.submit();
    });

    /**
     * disable-with handlers
     */
    var disable_with_input_selector = 'input[data-disable-with]';
    var disable_with_form_selector = 'form[data-remote]:has(' + disable_with_input_selector + ')';

    $(disable_with_form_selector).live('ajax:before', function () {
        $(this).find(disable_with_input_selector).each(function () {
            var input = $(this);
            input.data('enable-with', input.val())
                 .attr('value', input.attr('data-disable-with'))
                 .attr('disabled', 'disabled');
        });
    });

    $(disable_with_form_selector).live('ajax:after', function () {
        $(this).find(disable_with_input_selector).each(function () {
            var input = $(this);
            input.removeAttr('disabled')
                 .val(input.data('enable-with'));
        });
    });
});

Update:

You can get latest copy of Jquery.rails.js from here.

   https://raw.github.com/rails/jquery-ujs/master/src/rails.js