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I have been working on a web app using a Rails API and AngularJS. As models I have Teams and Users. You can add existing users to your team at anytime.

Since I want to add users to a team from AngularJS I wonder which route / controller should handle this action. (Adding an existing users to team.users)

Would this be a PUT api/teams/:id/users or PUT api/teams/:id or even a POST to api/teams/:id/:users

Keep in mind I am not creating a new user here but appending an existing one to a team's users.

Thank you!

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  • Use POST to api/teams/:id/:users more info stackoverflow.com/questions/630453/put-vs-post-in-rest Commented Feb 3, 2015 at 15:32
  • Even though I am not creating a user ? Commented Feb 3, 2015 at 15:33
  • Yes as you are adding a user to a team. If you are creating a user you would post to api/users Commented Feb 4, 2015 at 11:00

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None of the above; I would POST to /memberships.

You're not creating or updating a user, and you're not creating or updating a team.

You're creating a new joining record for users and teams. I would call that type of record a Membership, and provide an API for managing them. When a user joins a team, it's a POST to /memberships. When a user leaves a team, it's a DELETE to /memberships/:id.

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Makes a lot of sense. Would that require me to remove the has_and_belongs_to_many relationships I had and replace them with has_many through: ?
Yes, you shouldn't use has_and_belongs_to_many any ways. It's more or less out of favour at this point.

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