Is it possible to disable the standard PUT route in Rails 4?

Question

Rails 4 has introduced PATCH requests to be the default request method when doing the (common) partial updates on objects. This is conformal to HTTP standards and a

Answer 1

Yes it is, check the docs:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#restricting-the-routes-created

resources :photos, except: :update

PATCH and PUT are meant for different uses. As long as the update is partial you should be using PATCH but if you are updating everything you must use PUT. This can sound confusing, but for example let's suppose you are updating the associated model, this might be considered a put action instead of a patch as long as you are not modifying a partial info, you are update the whole relation.

Also PUT is used to update or create, soy might be found it useful when adding nested resources.

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/2/25/edge-rails-patch-is-the-new-primary-http-method-for-updates/

---------------EDIT with solution:

To override puts ad:

PATCH 'route', to: 'books#update'
resources :books, except: :update

Rails will catch the patch before the resources and will disable the put and patch for update.

Reference:

Override "show" resource route in Rails