# Strange Problem with ActionController (I think) **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 3, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-problem-with-actioncontroller-i-think/93436 "2006-04-03T04:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/esquilax)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-problem-with-actioncontroller-i-think/93436/1 "2006-04-03T04:37:46Z")
I’m working through the Agile Depot example I have no idea what I did, but when I try and delete something from the web page I get this error on the log. Processing AdminController#destroy (for 127.0.0.1 at 2006-04-02 22:28:06) [GET] Session ID: 4371bd7ca2cb5ec5e08e60a7590df90a Parameters: {“action”=\>“destroy”, “id”=\>“5”, “controller”=\>“admin”} Redirected to [http://localhost:3000/admin/list](http://localhost:3000/admin/list) Filter chain halted as [#Proc:0x013862e0@/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action\_controller/verification.rb:64] returned false Completed in 0.00135 (739 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 302 Found [[http://localhost/admin/destroy/5](http://localhost/admin/destroy/5)] If i go in using the console, I can perform product = Product.find(1); product.destroy; but using the browser, I can’t delete anything I also tried using breakpoint in the destroy method in the ActionController, but it never seems to get triggered, in fact, I think the method itself never gets run… so i’m a little lost… any help would be welcome !! 🙂 cheers ---
**Author:** ![esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/esquilax)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-problem-with-actioncontroller-i-think/93436/2 "2006-04-03T06:22:59Z")
oops, I realised I should have put this in: my rhtml file has this: \<%= link\_to ‘Destroy’, { :action =\> ‘destroy’, :id =\> product }, :confirm =\> “Are you sure?” %\> which results in this html on the rendered page: [Destroy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/admin/destroy/5) ---
**Author:** ![esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/esquilax)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-problem-with-actioncontroller-i-think/93436/3 "2006-04-03T06:45:10Z")
Hi Andrew Would you mind sharing a little code? It might be simple. Might not be. Can’t tell without seeing some code. Best regards Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: “Andrew G.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) To: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Sent: 2006-04-02 9:37 PM Subject: [Rails] Strange Problem with ActionController (I think) > Filter chain halted as [#\] ---
**Author:** ![esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/esquilax)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-problem-with-actioncontroller-i-think/93436/4 "2006-04-04T17:24:24Z")
Hi Andrew, How did you get on ? Alan Alan F. wrote: > Andrew G. wrote: > > > oops, I realised I should have put this in: > > > > my rhtml file has this: > > \<%= link\_to ‘Destroy’, { :action =\> ‘destroy’, :id =\> product }, > > :confirm =\> “Are you sure?” %\> > > > > which results in this html on the rendered page: > > [Destroy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/admin/destroy/5) > > The block in question is this: > > before\_filter(filter\_opts) do |c| > c.send :verify\_action, options > end > > This is guesswork, with no 1.1 app or AWDR book, but ISTR that Rails1.1 > puts a before\_filter in the scaffold to ensure destroy is called with a > :post type. ‘link\_to’ will generate a :get, which now won’t work. > > Look through _your_ controller for a before\_filter which has something > to do with :method =\> :post and :only =\> {:destroy…}. Remove this > line and (if I’m right) you should be cooking. > > A. ---
**Author:** ![esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/esquilax)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-problem-with-actioncontroller-i-think/93436/5 "2006-04-03T16:17:32Z")
Andrew G. wrote: > oops, I realised I should have put this in: > > my rhtml file has this: > \<%= link\_to ‘Destroy’, { :action =\> ‘destroy’, :id =\> product }, > :confirm =\> “Are you sure?” %\> > > which results in this html on the rendered page: > [Destroy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/admin/destroy/5) The block in question is this: before\_filter(filter\_opts) do |c| c.send :verify\_action, options end This is guesswork, with no 1.1 app or AWDR book, but ISTR that Rails1.1 puts a before\_filter in the scaffold to ensure destroy is called with a :post type. ‘link\_to’ will generate a :get, which now won’t work. Look through _your_ controller for a before\_filter which has something to do with :method =\> :post and :only =\> {:destroy…}. Remove this line and (if I’m right) you should be cooking. A. ---
**Author:** ![esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@esquilax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/esquilax)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-problem-with-actioncontroller-i-think/93436/6 "2006-04-07T11:40:54Z")
Hi, Had the same problem and removed this line of code that the scaffold autogenerated: # GETs should be safe (see [URIs, Addressability, and the use of HTTP GET and POST](http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/whenToUseGet.html)) verify :method =\> :post, :only =\> [:destroy, :create, :update], :redirect\_to =\> { :action =\> :list } It’s fixed the problem for now, I’ll have to manually check all my controllers that are linked to a db table though. Thanks Alan, saved me a lot of time. Alan F. wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > How did you get on ? > > Alan > > Alan F. wrote: > > > Andrew G. wrote: > > > > > oops, I realised I should have put this in: > > > > > > my rhtml file has this: > > > \<%= link\_to ‘Destroy’, { :action =\> ‘destroy’, :id =\> product }, > > > :confirm =\> “Are you sure?” %\> > > > > > > which results in this html on the rendered page: > > > [Destroy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/admin/destroy/5) > > > > The block in question is this: > > > > before\_filter(filter\_opts) do |c| > > c.send :verify\_action, options > > end > > > > This is guesswork, with no 1.1 app or AWDR book, but ISTR that Rails1.1 > > puts a before\_filter in the scaffold to ensure destroy is called with a > > :post type. ‘link\_to’ will generate a :get, which now won’t work. > > > > Look through _your_ controller for a before\_filter which has something > > to do with :method =\> :post and :only =\> {:destroy…}. Remove this > > line and (if I’m right) you should be cooking. > > > > A.