Rails Refactoring to Resources: Using CRUD and REST in Your Rails Application

Section 6. RESTful Views

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Using map.resources cleans up routes.rb and also enhances your views with several named routes. (For those of you who do not know, named routes are a rails feature that simplifies the URL generation process.) Instead of typing link_to :controller => 'tasks', :action=> 'new'

we simply type link_to new_task_url

The second line of code is simpler and more directly conveys the code’s purpose. Using map.resource gives two different sets of helper methods, each of which has three variations. The first, outlined in Table 6.1, returns the path to a resource. The second set of methods, outlined in Table 6.2, provides automatic content type negotiation by attaching a format to the end of the URL. It accepts ...