How to make Rails standard resource accept POST on update

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I was stuck with AngularJS - Rails capability. ngResource sends POST requests both on create and update. I found solutions for this problem for ngResource, but I would like to solve it on Rails side. I think there are no any conflicts 'course update and create performs on different URIs

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

You can change Rails resource to accept post method for update action. However, I do not recommend this way because RESTful way of update has better to be PUT method, not POST

As you said, you found a soultion to send PUT request on ngResource. I highly recommend that way.

From http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2013/05/16/angularjs-ngresource-tips-and-tricks/, ngResource does not support PUT out of the box, but it is extremely easy to implement:

var res = $resource('/your/url/:id', {foo: 'bar'}, {'put': {method: 
  'PUT', params: {foo: 'baz'}, isArray: false}});

Here is another discussion about it, and we better not to use POST for update again.

PUT vs POST in REST

The problem is ngResource does not distinguish between create and update actions while $save is called. It just appends ID to uri if it exists in object. Because of this I need to overwrite $save method in resource instance prototype. — atomAltera, Sep 18 '13 at 07:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '13 at 04:19

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Did you try overriding it in your routes.rb like this? I never tried it with the standard actions, but it might just work for you:

resources :users do
  post 'update', :on => :member 
end

answered Sep 17 '13 at 04:19

Rajesh Kolappakam

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If it conflicts with the other update method, you might add `resources :users, :except => :update do` – Mark Swardstrom Sep 17 '13 at 04:26

How to make Rails standard resource accept POST on update

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