Question

I understand most of how a RESTful site design should function, but in implementing a blog cannot decide the best way to present the form to insert a new blog post. Would example.com/posts/create be reasonable? This feels like the “create” is not restful, like it’s putting information into the URI that should be simply represented by PUT/POST.

How would others do this?

Answer 1

Have a look at Rails Routing for the Rails view on this.

Verb   URL            Controller  Action   Used For
GET    /photos/new    Photos      new      return an HTML form for creating a new photo
POST   /photos        Photos      create   create a new photo

So, in your situation, GET /posts/new to get the new post form, but POST /posts to create a new post.

The point is, you’re POSTing a new blog post, but to do that you need to GET the form that will enable you to do this. In a way, the new blog post form is just another (static) resource.