What is causing this redirect_to to fail?

Question

I am trying to use this redirect_to

redirect_to :controller => :note_categories, :action => :destroy, :note_id => params[:id]

This is the URL that results

http://localhost:3000/note_categories/272?note_id=272

and this is the error message

Unknown action
No action responded to show. Actions: destroy

The reason I am redirecting to the note_categories destroy action, and passing in the note id, is that in the destroy action, I am finding all the note_categories related to note, running some code on them, then destroying them. I know this isn't a great way to be doing this, but I couldn't use :dependant => :destroy because the code I have to run on the note_category before I delete it needs access to current_user, which can't happen in the note_category model.

So yeah, can someone please tell me what am I doing wrong in my redirect_to? Thanks for reading.