Rails resources vs resource Routing

resources routing

Routing definition

resources :photos

Routing result

HTTP Verb	Path	Controller#Action	Used for
GET	/photos	photos#index	display a list of all photos
GET	/photos/new	photos#new	return an HTML form for creating a new photo
POST	/photos	photos#create	create a new photo
GET	/photos/:id	photos#show	display a specific photo
GET	/photos/:id/edit	photos#edit	return an HTML form for editing a photo
PATCH/PUT	/photos/:id	photos#update	update a specific photo
DELETE	/photos/:id	photos#destroy	delete a specific photo

resource routing

Routing definition

resource :geocoder
resolve('Geocoder') { [:geocoder] }

Routing result

HTTP Verb	Path	Controller#Action	Used for
GET	/geocoder/new	geocoders#new	return an HTML form for creating the geocoder
POST	/geocoder	geocoders#create	create the new geocoder
GET	/geocoder	geocoders#show	display the one and only geocoder resource
GET	/geocoder/edit	geocoders#edit	return an HTML form for editing the geocoder
PATCH/PUT	/geocoder	geocoders#update	update the one and only geocoder resource
DELETE	/geocoder	geocoders#destroy	delete the geocoder resource

Reference

• Rails Routing from the Outside In — Ruby on Rails Guides

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