Subscribing to the RSS Change Log feed to the Subversion repository for Ruby on Rails is a great way to stay on top of what’s going on in Rails land and helps to give you a leg up on the types of things that are coming down the pipe. Today I saw Changeset 6485 and it was quickly blogged about by Dave Thomas. This changeset removes the use of the semicolon in RESTful routes and reverts it back to the old slash way of indicating sub resource intent. What this means is that a route like:
/categories/1;editwill now become (or should I say become once again)
/categories/1/editIn addition we get niceties like:
/categories/recent
/categories/1/stampI’ve never liked having the semicolon in the url; it just smelled of ugliness. I think we’ll find that this change is a good one and one that allows us to have the benefit of RESTful urls while still allowing for legitimate variations on that theme to support sub resources.
