REST is a fine pattern for designing controllers, but it can be pretty repetitive. Who wants to write out the same actions and copy the same model lookup logic all over their application?

make_resourceful handles all that for you. It sets up all your RESTful actions and responses with next to no code. Everything has full, sensible default functionality.

Of course, no controller only uses the defaults. So make_resourceful can be massively customized, while still keeping your controllers trim and readable.