Introduction to Rails discussion questions

Take 30 minutes to discuss the following questions with your table group.

Rails router

1. What are the seven conventional REST routes for a pizza resource? For each route list the HTTP verb, path and rails controller/action pair

2. What benefits does naming a route provide? (e.g. get '/pizzas, to: 'pizzas#index, as: 'pizzas')

3. Assuming you are using the standard REST routes, what rails built-in methods can be used to write concise routes?

Rails Request and Response cycle

1. What are the steps that Rails will take to implement the use cases below? List the verb/path, controller/action and associated SQL.

   • Display a list of resources
   • Delete a resource
   • Create a new resource
   • Display one resource