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How Do I Authenticate to ActiveResource to Avoid the InvalidAuthenticityToken Response?

I created a Rails application normally. Then created the scaffold for an event class. Then tried the following code. When run it complains about a InvalidAuthenticityToken when the destroy method is executed. How do I authenticate to avoid this response?

require 'rubygems'
require 'activeresource'

class Event < ActiveResource::Base
  self.site = "http://localhost:3000"
end

e = Event.create(
  :name => "Shortest Event Ever!",
  :starts_at => 1.second.ago,
  :capacity => 25,
  :price => 10.00)

e.destroy
Solution

  • I found an answer to this issue which works since I am writing a command-line application. I added the following to my controller:

      # you can disable csrf protection on controller-by-controller basis:
  skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token