Rails new vs create

Question

Why is there a need to define a new method in RESTful controller, follow it up with a create method?

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Answer 1

New instantiates a new Model instance, but it is not saved until the save method is called.

Create does the same as new, but also saves it to the database.

Sometimes you want to do stuff before saving something to the database, sometimes you just want to create and save it straight away.