The cargo-cult fallacy that there is a "correct" way to do something as complicated and varied as web service provision is exactly the kind of nonsense I'm talking about.
It is "easy" to blindly follow any rule. In most cases it is also wrong.
It is "easy" to blindly follow any rule. In most cases it is also wrong.
> It is "easy" to blindly follow any rule. In most cases it is also wrong.
Come on.
Feeling entitled to making firm pronouncements about "correct" behavior on subjects one is not an expert in (and let's be clear: no one is an expert on PATCH yet) is in some sense the very definition of "cargo cult mentality".
Edit: that's probably harsher than it's intended. My point isn't really about PATCH, which seems sane. It's about the pedantic mentality which is running rampant in the REST community (c.f. the "ARGH!" above), which in my mind is taking a good idea and polluting it with terrible nonsense in the pursuit of "purity". Think of what happened to Agile if you continue down this path.
Rack::MethodOverride does this for Rack-based apps by using the value of the _method parameter as the http verb.