Project: patch-patch - The Ruby Toolbox

PatchPatch changes Rails’ default behavior of mapping PUT and PATCH
requests on resources to the same action.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'patch-patch'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

PatchPatch hooks itself automatically into Rails’ routing engine. You don’t have to enable or configure it.

Let’s say we have a RESTful API with a single users resource.

# config/routes.rb
Foo::Application.routes.draw do
  resources :users
end

Before

$ rake routes
   Prefix Verb   URI Pattern               Controller#Action
    users GET    /users(.:format)          users#index
          POST   /users(.:format)          users#create
 new_user GET    /users/new(.:format)      users#new
edit_user GET    /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit
     user GET    /users/:id(.:format)      users#show
          PATCH  /users/:id(.:format)      users#update
          PUT    /users/:id(.:format)      users#update
          DELETE /users/:id(.:format)      users#destroy

After

$ rake routes
   Prefix Verb   URI Pattern               Controller#Action
    users GET    /users(.:format)          users#index
          POST   /users(.:format)          users#create
 new_user GET    /users/new(.:format)      users#new
edit_user GET    /users/:id/edit(.:format) users#edit
     user PATCH  /users/:id(.:format)      users#partial_update
          GET    /users/:id(.:format)      users#show
          PATCH  /users/:id(.:format)      users#update
          PUT    /users/:id(.:format)      users#update
          DELETE /users/:id(.:format)      users#destroy

Note: the old PATCH route is still there but it will never be matched since our #partial_update route comes first. The old PUT route will still route to #update though.

License

The patch logo is based on this lovely icon by Christina W, from The Noun Project. Used under a Creative Commons BY 3.0 license.

About Mirego

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We also love open-source software and we try to give back to the community as much as we can.

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