Use of button_to to access action "new"

I have a question about what is regarded as good practice in the
context of RESTful Rails interfaces.

I have a Subscribers Controller with “index” and “new” (and other)
actions. In routes.rb I define resource-based routing with
“map.resources :subscribers”.

In my index view I have a button_to that points to
“new_subscriber_path”. Since the button generates a POST request,
which doesn’t match any resource-based routes, I also have
“map.connect ‘:controller/:action’” in routes.rb to ensure that the
request goes to the intended "new"action.

This does exactly what I want it to, but it seems a little awkward to
have defined RESTful routes, and in this particular case to not use
one because of a UI design choice I’ve made (a button instead of a
link). Should this be viewed as a limitation in the way Rails supports
REST, or is there a different way I should be doing this?

Mark.

MarkMT wrote:

In my index view I have a button_to that points to
“new_subscriber_path”. Since the button generates a POST request,
which doesn’t match any resource-based routes, I also have
“map.connect ‘:controller/:action’” in routes.rb to ensure that the
request goes to the intended "new"action.

button_to creates a form, and forms can GET. That is in fact what forms
do by default, but rails specifies that they should be POST because
that’s what most people probably want. Anyway, button_to “Foo”,
bar_path, :method => :get is the way to go, rather than adding routes
like that.

Thank you! Just what I needed to know!

Mark.

On Oct 16, 3:24 pm, August L. [email protected]