REST, Internet Explorer and the banned DELETE method

Rails
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Hi all

As we all know, in REST the ResourceController#delete action is called
by calling “/resources/:id” with a delete method. But, the delete
method is not supported in IE. This seems like a problem to me. How do
people get around this, typically? I can think of various ways around
it but they all seem a bit bodgy and i’d like to know some other
approaches or even if there’s something really obvious that i’m missing.

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Hi,
You just cat you following in your view:
<%= link_to ‘Destroy’, photo, :confirm => ‘Are you sure?’, :method
=> :delete %>
and it appear in browser to that:
Destroy

as you can see its still post, but it has hidden input that tells your
controller about delete.

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*your just CAN ADD (sorry for this typo)…

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DmitryPush wrote:

Hi,
You just cat you following in your view:
<%= link_to ‘Destroy’, photo, :confirm => ‘Are you sure?’, :method
=> :delete %>
and it appear in browser to that:
Destroy

as you can see its still post, but it has hidden input that tells your
controller about delete.

Ah yes, of course, i had the feeling that rails handled this with a bit
of subterfuge but couldn’t remember quite how. I actually tried this
with a link_to_remote and the generated html was just a call to
jQuery.ajax with the delete method, just as i’d done it already, rather
than the code you posted up. I wonder if this is an issue with the
jrails plugin, which overrides the javascript generated by rails’ remote
helpers.

I’m actually doing it in javascript (in a jQuery.ajax call) anyway, so
lets see if changing the method to post and adding “_method=delete” to
the data has the same effect…yes it does. Great, thanks Dmitry!

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by the way, the same story about PUT

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