Comments on: Custom REST routes

By: matt

matt — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:38:31 +0000

I’m glad to have helped you Joel.

Thanks for the workingwithrails recommendation!

By: Joël AZÉMAR

Joël AZÉMAR — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:51:42 +0000

Thanks for this article, that helped me much !

and if you want a different form for this same new object, you can customize route like :

map.resources :venues, :new => { :good => :get } or
map.resources :venues, :new => { :bad => :get }

This will create a named route:
good_new_venue_path and bad_new_venue_path ;-)

look Module ActionController::Resources API for more comprehension

By: Frank Falkenberg

Frank Falkenberg — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:41:24 +0000

I would recommend to delegate the closed and mark_closed_down methods to the Venue model and leave the controller as dumb as possible. That makes it much simpler to refactor the controllers.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:55:55 +0000

You are absolutely right Rick. I really should proof read my posts. I have updated that to a PUT request.

By: Rick DeNatale

Rick DeNatale — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:37:57 +0000

The use of a get request to mark a venue as closed down doesn’t seem very RESTful to me.

Shouldn’t this be done with an update request rather than a get?