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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Frontend Development Introducing Views

Edward Poon
Edward Poon
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Posted by Edward Poon
Edward Poon
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Question on method: :delete

Why do we need to do method: :delete when we already know that the Destroy method is going to be called which will destroy that particular status?

1 Answer

Justin Black
Justin Black
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Justin Black
Justin Black
24,793 Points

The reason we do method: :delete, is to identify that we are sending this via the DELETE http header. Since we are passing it the status itself, failure to do method: :delete would send it via a GET http header, and thus would not delete the status.