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It's not an issue because web browsers only support GET and POST. Rails works around this by including a hidden field "_method" which contains the method the server should treat the request as.

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That's not true xmlhttprequest should support all methods but there are some quirks eg see http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/ to test though that does not cover PATCH.

I stand corrected, I hadn't thought about js requests

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