resourceful_routes.md

Resourceful Routing for CRUD Operations in Web Applications

Note: The RESTful routes also apply to RESTful APIs, however JSON is returned to the client vs. HTML

RESTful Routes:

HTTP Verb	Path (endpoint)	controller#action	View to Render or Redirect	Purpose
GET	/posts	posts#index	index	List all posts
GET	/posts/:id	posts#show	show	Show a single post
POST	/posts	posts#create	redirect	Create a new post
PUT	/posts/:id	posts#update	redirect	Update a post
DELETE	/posts/:id	posts#destroy	redirect	Delete a post

Useful Non-RESTful Routes:

HTTP Verb	Path (endpoint)	controller#action	Default View or Redirect	Purpose
GET	/posts/new	posts#new	new	Provide form for submitting new post to the create action
GET	/posts/:id/edit	posts#edit	edit	Provide form for editing a post and sending to the update action