Yikes Roy... you just got yourself a first class ticket to Merb/Web hell :p

You are making a GET request on an action that should receive a POST
request. You basically went around a protection set in the framework to help
you do the "right" thing.

It's not a huge deal but it's definitely not the right thing to do.

- Matt


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Roy Wright <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 11:34 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>
> > Roy, if you look at the example I put in the wiki:
> > resource(@article, :delete) # GET => delete
> >
> >
> > A GET request to the delete action won't destroy the object, it
> > should display a warning screen confirming that the user really
> > wanted to destroy the object.
> >
> > What justin is trying to do isn't possible in pure HTML. Let me
> > explain quickly.
> >
> > A restful destroy action on a resource needs to be called using the
> > DELETE http verb/method. Browsers don't support all the http verbs
> > such as DELETE and UPDATE. Instead, merb cheats by doing a post and
> > "stuff" the method to us in a parameter.
> >
> > The same way you cannot POST with a link, you can't DELETE with a
> > link and that's why we have the delete_button helper which creates a
> > form for you and send call the destroy action by using the DELETE
> > http verb in a request made to the resource.
>
> OK, I actually cheat a little in the controller and have the delete
> call the destroy method.  I really didn't want the "are you sure"
> prompt, so this seems to work fine from a link_to('delete',
> resource(obj, :delete))
>
>   def destroy
>     if get_resource.destroy
>       redirect resource(controller_name.to_sym)
>     else
>       raise InternalServerError
>     end
>   end
>
>   def delete(id)
>     destroy
>   end
>
> Have fun,
> Roy
>
>
> >
>

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