Notes - Rails Tutorial Chapter 5 - REST

REST architecture
wiki defines REST as:
Representational state transfer (REST) is a software architectural style consisting of a coordinated set of architectural constraints applied to components, connectors, and data elements, within a distributed hypermedia system.

What???
As condescending as this is it is also a helpful explanation:
http://katgleason.tumblr.com/post/37836552900/how-i-explained-rest-to-my-wife

https://www.servage.net/blog/2013/04/08/rest-principles-explained/

http://rest.elkstein.org/

http://www.railstutorial.org/book/demo_app#table-demo_RESTful_users

HTTP request	URL	Action	Purpose
GET	/users	index	page to list all users
GET	/users/1	show	page to show user with id 1
GET	/users/new	new	page to make a new user
POST	/users	create	create a new user
GET	/users/1/edit	edit	page to edit user with id 1
PATCH	/users/1	update	update user with id 1
DELETE	/users/1	destroy	delete user with id 1