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Duane Johnson just posted tutorial on how to use cURL to test a RESTful Rails app. A few of his examples are below.

• -X [action]: Allows you to specify an HTTP action such as GET, POST, PUT or DELETE.
  Example:

  curl -X DELETE http://localhost:3000/books/1

• -d [parameter]: Lets you set variables as if they were POSTed in a form to the URL. Note that this automatically makes the request a POST HTTP action type (no -X necessary).
  Example:

  curl -d "book[title]=Test" -d "book[copyright]=1998" 
  http://localhost:3000/books

• -H [header]: Gives you the option of setting an HTTP header such as Content-Type or Accept. This is particularly useful for requesting text/xml as the Accept type.
  Example:

  curl -H "Accept: text/xml" 
  http://localhost:3000/books/sections/1

Be sure to check it out if you have been looking into CRUD and edge Rails.