title: Performing AJAX delete operations restfully in rails
body: <p>How do you perform delete and put operations restfully in rails? I have read the documentation and thought I was doing everything properly, but I can't seem to get it to work.</p>
  
  <p>For example, if I wanted to delete an employee I would create a controller called "EmployeesController" and create a destroy method to perform the delete.</p>
  
  <p>Then I went into the routes.rb file and entered <code>map.resources :employees</code>, which gives you access to the URL helper functions.</p>
  
  <p>In whatever I want to call the Ajax operation from, I should just have a line like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%= link_to_remote "Delete", employee_path(@employee), :method =&gt; :delete %&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I click on the link, it is still is sending a POST operation, so it does nothing.</p>
  
  <p>What am I missing or doing wrong?</p>