Rails POST, PUT, GET

Question

After I generate a scaffold, Rails gives me the ability to POST to items.xml which will create a new item. A GET to items.xml will sim

Answer 1

Like Don Werve said, take a look at your routes.rb file. In there you probably have something like this:

map.resources :items

This is where rails links the POST and GET requests to certain actions. To see how this works look at the links from the other answers. The docs help a ton.

To all the routes and which actions they link to you can type rake routes into the command prompt when you are in the root of your rails directory. This will show you everything (in terms of routing) that a scaffold gives you.