How to create a delete link for a related object in Ruby on Rails?

Question

So let's say I have Posts and Comments and the url for show is /posts/1/comments/1. I want to create a link to delete that comment in the comments controller destroy method. How do I do that?

Answer 1

<%= link_to 'Destroy', post_comment_path(@post, comment),
            data: {:confirm => 'Are you sure?'}, :method => :delete %>

in comments controller:

  def destroy
    @post = Post.find(params[:post_id])
    @comment = Comment.find(params[:id])
    @comment.destroy

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html { redirect_to post_comments_path(@post) }
      format.xml  { head :ok }
    end
  end

Answer 2

Since some time ago, the confirm option has to be included in a data hash, otherwise it will be silently ignored:

<%= link_to 'Destroy',  post_comment_path(@post, comment),
    data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' }, method: :delete %>

Answer 3

Sometimes when you have <span>, <i> or nested elements inside of a <a> tag this way link_to use is difficult. You can inseted use raw HTML which is easy to handle, like so:

<a class="btn btn-sm" href="/blogs/<%[email protected]%>" data-method="delete">             
  <i class="pg-trash"></i><span class="bold">Delete</span>
</a>