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

This will help a lot, but it's not a direct answer to your question. The following command will list the mappings your app uses so you don't have to remember all the details or guess.

$ rake routes

To answer more directly, this is a convention that rails uses. You set this mapping up when you put something like the following in your routes.rb

map.resources :items