indentify url to send http commands from code

Question

i'm having an weird problem, my project have a login page, that's working, but i have to use this login page using http shell commands like:

curl -v http://google.com/

My problem is, how can i identify the URL to send the request from the source code? Follow the source code:

def create
  if request.post?
    if session[:account] = Account.authenticate(params[:account][:username], params[:account][:password])
      flash[:message] = "Login successful"
      redirect_to :controller => "items", :action => "index"
    else
      flash[:notice] = "Login unsuccessful"
      redirect_to :controller => "login", :action => "create"
    end
  end
end

If i try sent a request like this:

curl -d "account(username)=guilherme&account(password)=123456" http://localhost:3000/login

I have this response:

You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! You might have expected an instance of Array. The error occurred while evaluating nil.[]

Answer 1

i did not really understand your question, but i think that the curl line you posted should use brackets instead of parenthesis

curl -d "account[username]=guilherme&account[password]=123456" http://localhost:3000/login

i am asking myself what you are going to do with this, because you are not going to be able to keep the session-cookies with this approach?!