Rails Routing

Appendix . Further Resources

The Rails source code is literally definitive of the routing system. In particular, look at routing.rb and resources.rb in the ActionController source tree. That’s where pretty much everything is defined.

For those interested in REST, the canonical text is Roy Fielding’s dissertation,^[3], which you can find at www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm. In particular, you’ll probably want to focus on Chapters 5 and 6, which cover REST and its relation to HTTP. You’ll also find an enormous amount of information, and links to more, on the REST wiki at http://rest.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl.

Jamis Buck’s blog, http://weblog.jamisbuck.org, includes many articles on routing by one of the chief architects ...