为什么在Rails邮件程序中为帐户激活电子邮件使用“编辑” URL？

Question

I'm at the point in the Hartl tutorial ( chapter 11.2.1 ) where you create an account activation mailer and I was wondering, why are we creating an "edit" url like this:

<%= edit_account_activation_url(@user.activation_token, email: @user.email) %>

http://www.example.com/account_activations/q5lt38hQDc_959PVoo6b7A/edit

It seems like "edit" is not the right word for this. To me it would make more sense to use a method called something like "activate" instead "edit".

Why is Hartl using "edit"? I suspect it's because that is RESTful way to do it? Such as in this edit_user_url(user) .

Here are the routes that the mailer is using:

resources :account_activations, only: [:edit]

Can anyone explain why he might be using "edit"?

Answer 1

Well practically activation of account, changes it. So from rest point of view you editing it.

If you want to be more verbose in terms of purpose, you could alias this route to activate using as method :as documentation