why does form_for @story has to have Story as RESTful

it seems that when we use

  form_for @story do |f|

then Story has to be a RESTful resource and it has to be

  map.resources :stories

in the routes.rb?

can Story be not RESTful? Can it be a form for non-RESTful data?

"can Story be not RESTful? Can it be a form for non-RESTful data?"

Sure. Keep in mind one of the Rails tenets: "convention over configuration".

Take a look at the HTML generated by form_for in the various REST contexts (e.g. new, edit). *By default* it Does The Right Thing if you're using RESTful resources.

But there's nothing to stop you from overriding the configuration, e.g.:

    form_for @order, :url => checkout_details_path, :method => :put do |f|

and having a route to support it.

dwh

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