Section 7. RESTful Tests
Two new methods, put and delete, have been added to functional tests for testing RESTful controllers. These methods behave the same way as get and post, and do not interact with routes.rb. Therefore, they are really nothing more than a naming convention to make it apparent to users that put and delete are used for these actions. They are in no way a mandate that put and delete must be used. The syntax for put and delete, which is the same as the syntax for get and post, is shown in the following.
In integration tests, put and delete behave as would be expected. The path to the resource is specified, and routing determines ...
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