HTML creating href in wrong order for rails route - html

Question

I am using link_to to try to delete a record, but I'm getting an error saying the delete path does not exist. When looking at the href in the html form, the href is in the form of :id/controller instead of controller/:id. I have two examples of this, one for Edit that seems to work as expected, and one for Remove, where the route seems to be off. The main difference I see is that locale is not being defined on the destroy href. Any ideas on what is causing this issue? I saw this before on a different form, but I am starting to see this much more often. Any help would be much appreciated.
Routes:
topdressings GET (/:locale)/topdressings(.:format) topdressings#index {:locale=>/en|es/}
POST (/:locale)/topdressings(.:format) topdressings#create {:locale=>/en|es/}
new_topdressing GET (/:locale)/topdressings/new(.:format) topdressings#new {:locale=>/en|es/}
edit_topdressing GET (/:locale)/topdressings/:id/edit(.:format) topdressings#edit {:locale=>/en|es/}
GET (/:locale)/topdressings/:id(.:format) topdressings#show {:locale=>/en|es/}
PATCH (/:locale)/topdressings/:id(.:format) topdressings#update {:locale=>/en|es/}
PUT (/:locale)/topdressings/:id(.:format) topdressings#update {:locale=>/en|es/}
DELETE (/:locale)/topdressings/:id(.:format) topdressings#destroy {:locale=>/en|es/}
HTML:
<td><%= link_to t(:edit), edit_topdressing_path(topdressing), data: { toggle: "modal", target: "#EditModal_#{topdressing.id}", remote: edit_topdressing_path(topdressing) + "#modal-edit-form" }, remote: true %>
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<%= link_to t(:remove), topdressings_path(topdressing), method: :delete, data: { confirm: t(:confirm_remove_topdressing, device: "#{topdressing.topdressing_device.name}", date: "#{topdressing.date}") } %></td>
HREF DETAILS IN PAGE SOURCE
<td><a data-toggle="modal" data-target="#EditModal_1" data-remote="/en/topdressings/1/edit#modal-edit-form" data-remote="true" href="/en/topdressings/1/edit">Edit</a>
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<a data-confirm="Are you sure you want to delete the record for Device 2 on 2016-02-26" rel="nofollow" data-method="delete" href="/1/topdressings"><span>Remove</span></a></td>
ERROR ON DELETE:
Started DELETE "/1/topdressing" for 127.0.0.1 at 2016-03-05 14:34:06 -0800
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [DELETE] "/1/topdressing"):
web-console (2.0.0.beta3) lib/action_dispatch/debug_exceptions.rb:22:in `middleware_call'
HTML FORM details:

Answer 1

Your second link uses the topdressing_path URL helper and passes it one argument:
link_to t(:remove), topdressings_path(topdressing), method: :delete
But your rake routes shows that path only has one placeholder in it, for the locale:
topdressings GET (/:locale)/topdressings(.:format)
You need to use another URL helper instead. In Rails' resourceful routes you'd have a topdressing_path that you could use:
link_to t(:remove), topdressing_path(topdressing), method: :delete
But I'm guessing that's not how you've got your routes set up. Chances are, you've got something like this in config/routes.rb. You can add an as option to give that route a name, allowing you to use it in your link_to helpers in your views:
scope "(:locale)", locale: /en|nl/ do
# Other routes omitted
get "topdressings/:id", to: "topdressings#show", as: "topdressing"
end