rails RESTful updates

Question

In Rails, should you be able to update a field using a URL. Is that called RESTful?

For example, should something similar to this work to update workorder.wostatus_id for workorder with id=2?

http://localhost:5000/workorders/2?wostatus_id=4

Thanks!

Answer 1

In the case you've provided that shouldn't work as updates should be performed via a PUT request although if the URL was requested via PUT then it should work.

Remember the idea is that:

• GET to access and retrieve data
• PUT to update data
• POST to create data
• DELETE to remove data

EDIT: Often the actual parameter names can vary depending on the controller implementation so in rails you often find ?workorder[wostatus_id]=4, where it will reference the model name.