# Destroy Action **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 19, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/destroy-action/151287 "2008-10-19T20:40:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![keith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@keith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/destroy-action/151287/1 "2008-10-19T20:40:15Z")
Hi Everyone, I have just created a destroy action in my controller, it was working fine about 2 hours ago and now for some reason it has stopped working. Once I click on destroy I receive ’ Unknown action No action responded to destroy’. The action that I want it to redirect to is ‘list’ and this action does work as I have another action that redirects to ‘list’ fine. Could anyone let me in to what I I have done wrong please…? def list @albums = Album.find(:all) render(:action =\> ‘album\_list’) end def destroy @album = Album.find(params[:id]) @album.destroy redirect\_to(:action =\>‘list’) end And in my view I have \<% if @album != nil -%\> ID: \<%= @album.id %\> Title: \<%= @album.title %\> Artist: \<%= @album.artist %\> Genre: \<%= @album.genre %\> \<% else -%\> No record found. ``` <% end -%> <%= link_to('Back', :action => 'alt_album_list') %> | <%= link_to('Edit', :action => 'edit', :id => @album.id ) %> | <%= link_to('Destroy', {:action => 'destroy', id => ``` @album.id}, :confirm =\> ’ Are you sure?’) %\> When I go into the logs I get the following error message Processing PublicController#destroy (for 127.0.0.1 at 2008-10-19 16:32:19) [GET] Session ID: BAh7ByIKZmxhc2hJQzonQWN0aW9uQ29udHJvbGxlcjo6Rmxhc2g6OkZsYXNo SGFzaHsABjoKQHVzZWR7ADoMY3NyZl9pZCIlZmFlNWMzZDcxOWY5OTM0Yzhk ZDk0YTgwMDU4OWNkMDA=–5ecae299067ff9537732b80de514985b52f69fab Parameters: {“controller”=\>“public”, “action”=\>“destroy”, “id”=\>“15”} ActionController::UnknownAction (No action responded to destroy): C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:580:in `call_filters' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:573:in`perform\_action\_with\_filters’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action\_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in `perform_action_with_benchmark' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb: 293:in`measure’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action\_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in `perform_action_with_benchmark' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:201:in`perform\_action\_with\_rescue’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action\_controller/caching/sql\_cache.rb:13:in `perform_action_with_caching' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/ query_cache.rb:33:in`cache’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ activerecord-2.1.0/lib/active\_record/query\_cache.rb:8:in `cache' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action_controller/caching/sql_cache.rb:12:in`perform\_action\_with\_caching’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action\_controller/base.rb:529:in `process' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:569:in`process\_with\_filters’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action\_controller/session\_management.rb:130:in `process_with_session_management_support' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action_controller/base.rb:389:in`process’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action\_controller/dispatcher.rb:149:in `handle_request' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:107:in`dispatch’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action\_controller/dispatcher.rb:104:in `synchronize' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:104:in`dispatch’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action\_controller/dispatcher.rb:120:in `dispatch_cgi' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:35:in`dispatch’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ rails-2.1.0/lib/webrick\_server.rb:112:in `handle_dispatch' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ rails-2.1.0/lib/webrick_server.rb:78:in`service’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/ httpserver.rb:104:in `service' C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/ httpserver.rb:65:in`run’ C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/ server.rb:173:in `start_thread' :1:in`start’ Rendering C:/Users/Keith/.netbeans/6.1/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ gems/actionpack-2.1.0/lib/action\_controller/templates/rescues/ layout.erb (not\_found) Has anyone came across this before? I have done research on the message and someone has the same problem and fixed it by going into the following This is a comment I found from another group I got this error (ActionController::UnknownAction - No action responded to …), and I noticed it was because the link\_to helper generated bad URL’s (in the “:controller/:id/:action” format rather than “:controller/:action/:id”). The fix was to change the order of statements in the config/routes.rb file; move my “map.resources” statements higher up in the file (=higher priority). Thanks everyone ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@keith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/destroy-action/151287/2 "2008-11-21T07:36:28Z")
Moving "map.resources: highest did not work for me i moved map.resources :users to top but still my destroy method which was using :method =\> ‘post’, did not work untill i add the following in my routes.rb under the map.resources :users map.connect ‘/users/:id/’, :controller =\> ‘users’, :action =\> ‘destroy’, :id =\> /\d+/ , so the new routes.rb (without comments #) looked like following: ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| map.resources :users map.connect ‘/users/:id/’, :controller =\> ‘users’, :action =\> ‘destroy’, :id =\> /\d+/ map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’ map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’ end I hope that helps ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@keith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/destroy-action/151287/3 "2008-11-21T07:56:26Z")
Baba Bobo wrote: > Just tested even adding the following short version, also works fine: > > map.connect ‘/users/:id/’, :controller =\> ‘users’, :action =\> ‘destroy’ sorry just tested while this short version fixes the ‘destroy’ method but it breaks the ‘new’ method so you will have to use the above mentioned full version which is: map.connect ‘/users/:id/’, :controller =\> ‘users’, :action =\> ‘destroy’, :id =\> /\d+/ ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@keith](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/destroy-action/151287/4 "2008-11-21T07:38:34Z")
Just tested even adding the following short version, also works fine: map.connect ‘/users/:id/’, :controller =\> ‘users’, :action =\> ‘destroy’