I’m following the Rails official Getting started guide and ran into this error when trying to delete:

AbstractController::ActionNotFound (The action 'destroy' could not be found for TasksController)

All other actions (index, show, new, create, edit, update) work correctly.

I can see that the request is POST and has a ?_method=delete url param. Is this normal? Shouldn’t it be a DELETE request?

My model is named task, the controller is named tasks_controller.

Inside routes.rb I have resources :tasks.

In the erb I have this link with turbo delete:

<%= link_to "Delete", task_path(@task), data: { turbo_method: :delete, turbo_confirm: "Are you sure?" } %>

All ‘task’ routes:

root_path   GET /   
tasks#index

/mnt/e/Work/later/config/routes.rb:3

tasks_path  GET /tasks(.:format)    
tasks#index

/mnt/e/Work/later/config/routes.rb:5

POST    /tasks(.:format)    
tasks#create

/mnt/e/Work/later/config/routes.rb:5

new_task_path   GET /tasks/new(.:format)    
tasks#new

/mnt/e/Work/later/config/routes.rb:5

edit_task_path  GET /tasks/:id/edit(.:format)   
tasks#edit

/mnt/e/Work/later/config/routes.rb:5

task_path   GET /tasks/:id(.:format)    
tasks#show

/mnt/e/Work/later/config/routes.rb:5

PATCH   /tasks/:id(.:format)    
tasks#update

/mnt/e/Work/later/config/routes.rb:5

PUT /tasks/:id(.:format)    
tasks#update

/mnt/e/Work/later/config/routes.rb:5

DELETE  /tasks/:id(.:format)    
tasks#destroy

/mnt/e/Work/later/config/routes.rb:5

Full controller code:

class TasksController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @tasks = Task.all
  end

  def show
    @task = Task.find(params[:id])
  end

  def new
    @task = Task.new
  end

  def create
    @task = Task.new(task_params)

    if @task.save
      redirect_to @task, notice:"Task was successfully created"
    else
      render :new, status: :unprocessable_entity
  end

  def edit
     @task = Task.find(params[:id])
  end

  def update
    @task = Task.find(params[:id])

    if @task.update(task_params)
      redirect_to @task, notice:"Task was successfully updated"
    else
      render :edit, status: :unprocessable_entity
    end
  end

  def destroy
    @task = Task.find(params[:id])
    @task.destroy

    redirect_to root_path, status: :see_other
  end
end

private
  def task_params
    params.require(:task).permit(:title, :body)
  end
end