Use Curl with Your Rails REST API

class ThingsController < ApplicationController

  # curl -c mycookies localhost:3000/things/new
  # The "-c" flag will create/overwrite a cookie file named "mycookies"
  def new
    render :json => { :authenticity_token => form_authenticity_token }
  end
  
  # curl -i -b cookies -d "test=hey&authenticity_token=[URLEncoded auth token]" localhost:3000/things
  # The "-i" flag returns the response header (optional)
  # The "-b mycookies" flag uses the cookie file from the previous request
  # To URLEncode the auth string, just replace the "+" with "%2B"
  def create
    logger.info(params[:test])
    render :nothing => true
  end
end