How to add confirm message with link_to Ruby on rails

I wanted to add confirmation message on link_to function with Ruby.

= link_to 'Reset message', :action=>'reset' ,:confirm=>'Are you sure?'

Any ideas why it's not working?

I might be mistaken but you don't specify a controller along with the :action option. Have you tried the following? Assuming you have a messages resource configured in your route:

link_to 'Reset', message_path(@message), :confirm => 'Are you sure?'

EDIT: Above is deprecated. Rails 4.0 now accepts the prompt as a data attribute. See the doc here (Thanks @Ricky).

link_to 'Reset', message_path(@message), :data => {:confirm => 'Are you sure?'}

First, you should verify that your layout have jquery_ujs. Best practice to do it by including it in your main application.js:

//= require jquery_ujs

Check that you included application.js in your layout:

= javascript_include_tag :application

While, in development mode, view your source html and verify jquery_ujs.js exists.

Run your server and verify your link tag has data-confirm value, for example:

<a href="/articles/1" data-confirm="Are you sure?" data-method="delete">

If all those steps are correct, everything should work!

Note: check this RailsCast http://railscasts.com/episodes/136-jquery-ajax-revised

Can't remember how this was done in Rails 3, but in Rails 4 you can simply:

<%= link_to 'Reset message', { controller: 'your_controller', action: 'reset' }, data: {confirm: 'Are you sure?'} %>

<%= link_to 'Reset Message', data: {confirm:"Are you sure?"} %>

remember to add the path, between 'reset message' and data

<%= link_to "Delete this article", article_path(article), method: :delete,
                    data: { confirm: "Are you sure you want to delete the 
                    article?"}, class: "btn btn-xs btn-danger" %>

A button link where article_path is the prefix and (article) is passing the id which is required by the method: :delete method. The later part of the codes adds a confirmation msg.

Try this:

= link_to 'Reset message', {:action=>'reset'}, :confirm=>'Are you sure?'

or to be more clear

= link_to('Reset message', {:action=>'reset'}, {:confirm=>'Are you sure?'})

Refer http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#method-i-link_to

You will see that there are 3 parameters, when you are giving url as options like {:action => ..., :controller => ...}

link_to(body, url_options = {}, html_options = {})

In ruby, if the last parameter in a function call is a hash, you need not wrap it in {} characters (in other words, you can omit that in case, if the hash is the last parameter), so the code you have provided will be interpreted as a function call with only 2 parameters, 'Reset message' string and {:action=>'reset', :confirm=>'Are you sure?'} hash and the :confirm=>'Are you sure?' will be interpreted as a url_option instead of a html_option

Somehow does not work those code only Safari browser So I was involved button...

<%= button_to('', delete_path(), method: "delete", data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?', disable_with: 'loading...' }) %>

Look at your javascript_include_tag and it should work fine:

<%= link_to("Reset message", :method => :reset, :class => 'action', :confirm => 'Are you sure?') %>

watch this railscasts video for better understanding.

http://railscasts.com/episodes/205-unobtrusive-javascript

rails documentation for link_to helper.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#method-i-link_to

First, we need to understand what Js package respond to this kind of alerts in rails application. So for this, jquery_ujs package is reponsible for showing the alerts in rails.

So you must have jquery & jquery_ujs in your application.js file.

//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs

Now, we need to confirm, that application.js file is included in your required layout or not. By default layout file remains in application.html.erb in layout folder of views.

<%= javascript_include_tag 'application' %>

Next the link should have data-confirm & data-method attributes as

<a href="/message/1/reset" data-method="delete" data-confirm="Are you sure?">

In erb, this can be written as,

= link_to 'Reset', message_path(@message), data: {method: 'delete', confirm: 'Are you sure?'}

This should work if everything is aligned in same fashion.