> That is true, yes. The RESTful design methodology requires you to define > custom actions in your routes file. That is because earlier when we used > map.connect ':controller/:action/:id' we always used the GET method - > for the destroy, create and update actions. > > Then someone found out that you could make the urls prettier (and > respect the RESTful design philosophy) by using other standard HTTP > methods like DELETE, POST and PUT. Therefore you have to actually tell > Rails what method you'ld like to use, it will not use GET by default. > That is actually good. Imagine having half of your custom actions being > using the GET method, the other half using the POST, PUT or DELETE > method. Then you'ld need to define what method to use for half of them > in your routes file (instead of all of them). What a mess... (:
So, if i don't specify a method (as we did), the default one would be POST ?? Or DELETE ?? Or PUT ?? Which one ?? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
