Rails - Jan 2006 - scaffold uses link_to for destroy

Hi,

I wonder why scaffolding uses a link_to tag for the destroy links.
Seems like these should be POST requests with button_to. The Rails
book dedicates pages 335-337 to this very issue.

Peter

Peter Michaux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder why scaffolding uses a link_to tag for the destroy links.
> Seems like these should be POST requests with button_to. The Rails
> book dedicates pages 335-337 to this very issue.
> 
> Peter
The scaffold is intended to be a quick and dirty implementation to get 
things up and running.  The intent is for the user to gradually replace 
scaffold operations with their own (and presumably better) code.  In 
development mode

That said, I''m certain a signficant chunk of scaffold code will not be 
replaced in some live applications.  It would certainly make sense to 
put in minor fixes like that as an example of good coding practices at 
least.

My guess is that the scaffold hasn''t been updated in quite some time
and
that this is a legacy thing.

FYI, you can make ''link_to'' generate post requests instead of
get
requests, so you don''t really need to use
''button_to''.


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Kevin:

How do you get link_to to generate a post request?  That would seem  
useful in light of this discussion.

bruce


On 8-Jan-06, at 11:47 AM, Kevin Olbrich wrote:
> Peter Michaux wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder why scaffolding uses a link_to tag for the destroy links.
>> Seems like these should be POST requests with button_to. The Rails
>> book dedicates pages 335-337 to this very issue.
>>
>> Peter
>
> The scaffold is intended to be a quick and dirty implementation to get
> things up and running.  The intent is for the user to gradually  
> replace
> scaffold operations with their own (and presumably better) code.  In
> development mode
>
> That said, I''m certain a signficant chunk of scaffold code will
not be
> replaced in some live applications.  It would certainly make sense to
> put in minor fixes like that as an example of good coding practices at
> least.
>
> My guess is that the scaffold hasn''t been updated in quite some  
> time and
> that this is a legacy thing.
>
> FYI, you can make ''link_to'' generate post requests
instead of get
> requests, so you don''t really need to use
''button_to''.
>
>
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> How do you get link_to to generate a post request?  That would seem
> useful in light of this discussion.
link_to "Destroy", { :action => "destroy" }, :post =>
true
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Bruce

    > How do you get link_to to generate a post request?

An alternative is to replace
     link_to
by
    button_to

=> Rails creates a form and a button to reach the link target.


Alain