title: How can I emulate PUT/DELETE for Rails and GWT?
body: <p>I would like to make my application somewhat REST compliant.  I am using Rails on the backend and <a href="https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/" rel="noreferrer">GWT</a> on the frontend.  I would like to do updates and deletes.  I realize I can do something like mydomain.com/:id/delete (GET) and accomplish the same thing.  However, as I stated previously, I would like to have a REST compliant backend.  Thus, I want to do mydomain.com/:id (DELETE) and have it implicitly call my delete method.</p>
  
  <p>Now, it's my understanding that if a browser (my browser is GWT RequestBuilder) doesn't support DELETE/GET, Rails somehow accomplishes this task with a POST and some other url parameter.  So, how can I accomplish this with a GWT RequestBuilder?</p>