Difficulty understanding the Golden Seven Restful Actions

Question

I was looking at the Golden 7 Restful Actions viz.

Index New Delete Update Create Edit Show

Now, I'm totally confused and not really sure if all of these are exclusive? For instance, what is the difference between Index and Show, New and Create or Edit and Update? Are they essentially the same? Does that mean, we have just 4 golden actions and not 7?

Answer 1

You may take a look at the Simply Restful Routing for an example of the different restful actions and verbs.

Answer 2

The reason you are confused is because it is a terribly bad way of trying to implement REST. To use the term RESTful action to describe anything other than GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, etc when using HTTP is just nasty.

Even some of the Rails guys are realizing that the seven actions were a bad idea.