In a great post about named routes in Rails, path vs. url, Viget Labs ponders which variant is best used.<br />
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Most often we use foo_path, which when used in Rails URL helpers will generate a relative path, where foo_url generates a full URL. In most cases the path makes most sense, but not always.

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