[Rails] routes: _path vs. _url

Routes offers you the ability to use _path or _url as a way to make links/redirect/etc throughout your site. However, I'm just wondering when you should use _path and when you should use _url. Is there a preference to which one to use? They seem to be fairly interchangeable (in my very simple app

[Rails] Beginning Rails development without internet

have its own table which connects via a relationship between user id and user_id in the options table? Finally, how should I store global forum settings like default posts per page and stuff like that? Thanks so much for your help! ~Zak Strassberg

[Rails] Re: Beginning Rails development without internet

clan...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/9/30 Zak Strassberg moomoothe...@gmail.com: When I told some web developer friends that I was going to try to learn Rails while taking a year off before college (when I would have very little internet), they were a little concerned, saying