Rails - Jan 2007 - noob with :method => :post vs. :post => 'true' dilemma

Okay, I''ve worked through the tutorial in 2nd ed. Agile Dev book.

And I think I understand the methods concerning user management;
however, when I use :method => :post in my app, I get a link of the
following variety:

    <li><a href="/login/delete_user/2"
method="post" onclick="return
confirm(''Really delete john?'');">[X]</a>
        john
    </li>

Note the ''method="post"'', and in my log when I click
this thing, no
''post'' goes through, and no user gets deleted.

My delete_user method is identical to book''s.

However, when I use :post => ''true'', no problem; post shows
up in log,
and user gets deleted.

Generated code looks like:

    <li><a href="/login/delete_user/1" onclick="if
(confirm(''Really
delete john?'')) { var f =
document.createElement(''form'');
this.parentNode.appendChild(f); f.method = ''POST''; f.action
this.href; f.submit(); };return false;">[X]</a>

        john
    </li>

What''s even stranger to me is that if I download the book''s
code, which
has :method => :post in its list_users.rhtml template, and run that
app, it works just fine. What am I missing? I''m on rails 1.2.1, but am
really bewildered about the difference here.

Thanks for your patience.


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You should post the exact code that you are using. However, you are most 
likely passing the arguments to the helper method incorrectly. They have 
a rather strange parameter profile and you have to take great care where 
you put the arguments and sometimes you need to explicitly surround them 
with braces. The best example is probably directly from the Rails API 
docs:

link_to "Delete Image", { :action => "delete", :id =>
@image.id },
:confirm => "Are you sure?", :method => :delete

Notice how the second argument is explicitly made into a Hash using 
braces. The remaining arguments are implicitly turned into another Hash 
by Ruby and will be passed as the third argument.

If this doesn''t solve your problem, then post your exact code that 
misbehaves.

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