# RESTless over RESTful routes **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 14, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restless-over-restful-routes/85506 "2007-02-14T02:49:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/glenatron)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restless-over-restful-routes/85506/1 "2007-02-14T02:49:22Z")
RESTful routes are making me a sad panda. I’m using rails 1.2.1 and have an event controller with create, update, show, etc. I also have my resources mapped in routes.rb: map.resources :events I thought that the RESTful url for updating an event should be: /events/1.xml But I keep getting a 404 for that. On the other hand, if I post to: /events/update/1.xml it works just fine. Note that I still have the default routes at the bottom of my routes.rb: # Install the default route as the lowest priority. map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’ map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id’ But if I take that out then neither the /events/id nor the /events/update/id versions work. We’re not supposed to use the /controller/action type urls with REST right? Does anyone know why map.resources isn’t working correctly or what I can do to debug it? thanks, Ben ---
**Author:** ![glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/glenatron)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restless-over-restful-routes/85506/2 "2007-02-14T03:40:27Z")
On 2/13/07, Ben M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > /events/1.xml > map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’ > > Ben Ben, The update route generated by map.resources will be events/:id (ex: events/1) using HTTP PUT, not /events/1.xml. I recently put together an example app to help people learn REST. You can use it as an example if it helps… Code: [http://svn.depixelate.com/applications/restful\_product\_tracker](http://svn.depixelate.com/applications/restful_product_tracker) Blog post: [http://depixelate.com/2007/1/19/restful-product-tracker](http://depixelate.com/2007/1/19/restful-product-tracker) – Zack C. [http://depixelate.com](http://depixelate.com) ---
**Author:** ![glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/glenatron)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restless-over-restful-routes/85506/3 "2007-02-14T04:09:30Z")
Zack C. wrote: > Code: [http://svn.depixelate.com/applications/restful\_product\_tracker](http://svn.depixelate.com/applications/restful_product_tracker) > Blog post: [http://depixelate.com/2007/1/19/restful-product-tracker](http://depixelate.com/2007/1/19/restful-product-tracker) Hey Zack, yeah it turned out that I was using the wrong curl option… it’s -T to do a PUT… I was still using -d, which was doing a POST. With the -T, it works like a champ… well, after I commented out the verify method stuff that the generator put in there anyway. I wasn’t completely lost, however… I saw that it was doing a post and had tried to figure out how to add the \_method=PUT param. Forgot to mention that… And actually, I thought doing the .xml encouraged rails to intervene and considered the POST a PUT. Sigh. So much to learn. Thanks for the links… will definitely check them out. b ---
**Author:** ![glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@glenatron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/glenatron)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 4:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/restless-over-restful-routes/85506/4 "2007-02-14T04:42:33Z")
this bash script might help: [http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3521](http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3521) i wrote it to help me test my REST apps - might prove useful. ed