Update Users
Explore how to implement the user update function in a Rails API by securing the update action with user authentication. Understand the differences between PUT and PATCH requests, update the users controller and routes, and learn to test your update endpoint to ensure it works correctly.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
The user update scheme is very similar to the creation scheme. The differences between these two actions are:
- The update action responds to a
PUT/PATCHrequest. - Only a connected user should be able to update their information, which means that we will have to force the user to authenticate. We will discuss this later