in Ruby on Rails, why does "form_for @story" has to have Story as RESTful

Question

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?

Answer 1

Check out rails documentation for form_for.

You can modify the form_for @story and pass in some other options to suit your needs.

If that doesn't work for you, you can use form_tag instead.