I have a question regarding restful routing and the uri conventions presently in use, specifically the /new and /{id}/edit uri''s. I have been giving these two some thought and it seems to me that there exists a cleaner approach to this then simply tacking on a procedure call to the end of the uri. Compare: http://localhost:3000/clients/new with http://localhost:3000/client :method => ''get'' followed by a ''post'' and http://localhost:3000/clients/1/edit with http://localhost:3000/client/1 :method => ''get'' followed by a ''put'' In both cases the use of the singular creates a unique mapping of the underlying http verb (get) to the Rails methods ''new'' and ''edit'' respectively. There remains the self-evident problem of dealing with nouns that share plural and singular forms, a sheep versus a flock of sheep for instance. However, I believe that this issue could, and probably should, be circumvented by a careful choice of terminology. So, why did Rails elect to use the rpc style for just new and edit rather than inferencing the action from the base resource uri? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---