# Does map.resources :stories immediately make Story RESTful?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 24, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-map-resources-stories-immediately-make-story-restful/168695 "2009-05-24T15:45:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-map-resources-stories-immediately-make-story-restful/168695/1 "2009-05-24T15:45:17Z")

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I was reading Simply Rails by Patrick Lenz… maybe I missed something,  
it seems that whenever we put

map.resources :stories

in routes.rb

then immediately, the controller will have special conventions and now  
Story is a RESTful resource? Maybe the author used the word resource but  
didn’t mention that it is RESTful but they are the same thing?