Rails Routing

Chapter 6. REST, Resources, Representations, Routing, and Ruby on Rails

6.1	REST in a Rather Small Nutshell	53
6.2	REST in Rails	55
6.3	Routing and CRUD	56
6.4	Resources and Representations	58
6.5	From Named Routes to REST Support	59
6.6	Reenter the HTTP Verb	62
6.7	The Standard RESTful Controller Actions	63
6.8	Singular and Plural RESTful Routes	65
6.9	The Special Pairs: new/create and edit/update	66
6.10	Nested Resources	67
6.11	Adding Custom Actions with :member and :collection	73
6.12	Controller-Only Resources	75
6.13	Singleton Resource Routes	78
6.14	Returning Different Representations	78
6.15	At Home with the Rails REST Action Set	81

With version 1.2, Rails introduced support for designing APIs consistent with the REST style. REST (Representational State Transfer) is a complex topic ...