[Rails] Re: Updating a collection in a RESTful manner…

I would also like to know the correct way of doing a collection
update. but I, generally, use ajax for check box, so when user clicks
on the yes - no check box I make a put request to update 1 record at a
time.

Aashish

On Aug 8, 2:07 am, Tim Harding <tim.hard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today I added a checkbox to each row of a table and a save button, to
> perform an Archive operation on N items in the table.
>
> This is essentially an update of the collection.
>
> My initial thought was to PUT to students_path but only GET and POST
> are allowed using the Rails RESTful routing.
>
> I wound up adding an :collection => {:update_all => :put} to the
> students routing and added an appropriate controller method.
>
> I'm not terribly happy with this, stylistically, though,
> pragmatically, it works.
>
> What is the proper way to manage an update to a collection w/o having
> to add an addition method to my controller?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> -Tim

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