RESTful Rails Drops Semicolons
March 29, 2007
From the Rails changelog:
Dropped the use of ; as a separator of non-crud actions on resources and went back to the vanilla slash. It was a neat idea, but lots of the non-crud actions turned out not to be RPC (as the ; was primarily intended to discourage), but legitimate sub-resources, like /parties/recent, which didn’t deserve the uglification of /parties;recent. Further more, the semicolon caused issues with caching and HTTP authentication in Safari. Just Not Worth It [DHH]
I actually liked the use of ;edit to get a form to edit something, but hey, it’s just URLs.
[via PragDave]
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Comments
I liked ;edit too. But I hated ;recent and other sub-resources considerably more ;)
Posted by: DHH at March 29, 2007 6:06 PM | link
Fair enough.
Posted by: Stefan Tilkov at March 29, 2007 6:42 PM | link