Being RESTful about your routes – Known Decimal

Ruby on Rails advocates heavily for "convention over configuration". One of these core conventions is the baked-in RESTful design for CRUD actions. You're introduced to this convention when you're just starting out with Ruby on Rails.Almost all web applications involve CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations. You may even find that the majority of the work your application does is CRUD. Rails acknowledges this and provides many features to help simplify code doing CRUD.- The Rails docs.