I'm putting together PUT/DELETE links, a la Rails, which when clicked create a POST form with an hidden input labelled _method that sends the intended request type. I want to make it DRYer, but my jQuery knowledge isn't up to it.

HTML:

<a href="/articles/1" class="delete">Destroy Article 1</a>
<a href="/articles/1/publish" class="put">Publish Article 1</a>

jQuery:

$(document).ready(function() {

  $('.delete').click(function() {
    if(confirm('Are you sure?')) {
      var f = document.createElement('form');
      $(this).after($(f).attr({
        method: 'post',
        action: $(this).attr('href')
      }).append('<input type="hidden" name="_method" value="DELETE" />'));
      $(f).submit();
    }
    return false;
  });

  $('.put').click(function() {
    var f = document.createElement('form');
    $(this).after($(f).attr({
      method: 'post',
      action: $(this).attr('href')
    }).append('<input type="hidden" name="_method" value="PUT" />'));
    $(f).submit();
    return false;
  });

});