In rails is 'method:' parameter used only for delete action?

Question

I am new to Rails and came to know about the destroy action.When we write a destroy action for deleting something, in the link to delete it, we write the code:

method: :delete

So is the method parameter used only for delete, or is it used somewhere else too?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

By default (Incase if you don't mention method type) it take HTTP method type as GET

So explicitly for any other HTTP request you need to mention HTTP method type for request.

Destroy action(which is use to delete some record) should be delete type HTTP request. so in link it need to mention method: :delete otherwise it serve request as get. hopefully this will clear your doubt.

References: -

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v2.3/routing.html#restful-routes