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POST != Create and PUT != Update; Article around Rails route meaning vs HTTP spec.

by Tomas Valent —

http://www.eq8.eu/blogs/37-post-create-and-put-update

Ruby on Rails developers tend to think that HTTP method POST represents Create and PUT means Update.

Well, not really. The CRUD mapping of modern web-frameworks just limits the scope of this HTTP methods for sake of simplicity in code design. Read more in this article what they really stand for.

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