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Rails Routes, HTTP Methods and SQL Queries

Learning how the rails routes are generated and how they map to HTTP methods and SQL queries is a foundational piece of knowledge that is missed by many developers when starting out. In this post we will explore some of the basics that will help fill in the gap so that students can understand Rails routes in the least amount of time.

Rails convention depict that a controller should only have 7 actions most of the time. Generally speaking if you are creating a controller or defining routes and you feel like you need something other than the 7 standard action you should consider creating a new controller.

In the rest of this post we uncover how Rails Routes map to HTTP Methods and SQL Queries

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