Named route from resources takes me to show page instead of delete page

Question

I am using resources :users in routes.rb. This provides the following paths as rake routes unveils.

users     GET    /users(.:format)           {:action=>"index", :controller=>"users"}
          POST   /users(.:format)           {:action=>"create", :controller=>"users"}
new_user  GET    /users/new(.:format)       {:action=>"new", :controller=>"users"}
edit_user GET    /users/:id/edit(.:format)  {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"users"}
user      GET    /users/:id(.:format)       {:action=>"show", :controller=>"users"}
          PUT    /users/:id(.:format)       {:action=>"update", :controller=>"users"}
          DELETE /users/:id(.:format)       {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"users"}

Further, I comment out the legacy wild controller route.

#match ':controller(/:action(/:id(.:format)))'

To add a delete link on my users page I add the following.

<%= link_to "Delete user", user, :method => :delete, :confirm => "Are you sure?" %>

This generated the following html code.

<a href="/users/42" data-confirm="Are you sure?" data-method="delete" rel="nofollow">Delete user</a>

I click the link and it takes me to the show page?! What's wrong?

Answer 1

You need to include the default Javascript files for that to work properly:

<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>