Why I can't change the link_to become link_to remote directly?

Question

I have a link_to like this:

<%= link_to 'X', category, :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete %>

So, I change it like this:

<%=link_to_remote category.name,
            :confirm => 'Are you sure?', :method => :delete%>

it show the confirm box, but after I click "yes", it won't delete the item I want , why?

Answer 1

There is no information about what url you need to go to in your link_to_remote usage. You should also specify something like

 :url => delete_category_path(category) 

in the options hash.