Ruby Rails delete confirmation not popping up before destroy - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am trying to delete a record from my database using Rails destroy action and button_to, however, the confirmation does not pop up and the app simply deletes the record without confirmation. I've tried multiple approaches:
<%= button_to 'Delete', post_path, :method => :delete, :confirm => 'Are you sure you want to delete this item?' %>
<%= button_to 'Delete', post_path, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' } %>
<%= button_to 'Delete',post_path, :method => :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure you want to delete this item?'}
<%= button_to 'Delete', post_path, {method: :delete}, {confirm: 'Are you sure?'} %>
Neither shows a confirmation module.

Answer 1

I was able to get this to work by following this here.
https://dev.to/software_writer/how-to-show-a-delete-confirmation-dialog-in-rails-using-stimulus-17i
Basically what you want to do is create a Stimulus js file in your app/javascript/controllers. In your case it would be posts_controller.js. Then put the following code in posts_controller.js.
import { Controller } from "#hotwired/stimulus"
export default class extends Controller {
// method for alerting before deleting posts
delete(event) {
let confirmed = confirm("Are you sure?");
if(!confirmed) {
event.preventDefault();
}
}
}
When you create the button to delete your post, have the parent div container have the data-controller="posts" attribute. Then set the action for the button_to to your method in your posts_controller.js. It should look something like this.
<div id="postDeleteLink" data-controller="posts">
<%= button_to "Delete this post", #post, method: :delete, data: { action: "click->posts#delete" } %>
</div>