Thanks so much, I was passing the args in the wrong order as you stated. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 30, 8:59 pm, Pablo Fernandez <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi, I have this link_to helper >> >> <%= link_to "edit", :action => 'edit', :id => @pirate, :confirm => >> 'should edit?' %> >> >> It should (in order to what I read in apidock) prompt me for >> confirmation via javascript confirm, but it doesn't. >> > If you check the html generated you'll noticed that the url has a > confirm parameter. If you check apidoc again you'll see that the > confirm option needs to be passed in the second options hash, ie > link_to 'blah', {options for url}, {other stuff here} >> Any idea why? >> >> Also when I set the :id attribute, either @pirate or @pirate.id >> work... why is that, and what's the preferred form? >> > Because if you pass an activerecord object as the :id for a url rails > calls to_param on it, which by default returns id. The preferred form > these days would be to have the appropriate routes and do link_to > 'edit', edit_pirate_path(@pirate) > > Fred >> Thanks! > > >
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