# Are there any tutorials on creating a client in Ruby for RESTful Rails app?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 17, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/are-there-any-tutorials-on-creating-a-client-in-ruby-for-restful-rails-app/143376 "2008-07-17T21:05:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![g0nzo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/3bc359/32.png) [@g0nzo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/g0nzo)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/are-there-any-tutorials-on-creating-a-client-in-ruby-for-restful-rails-app/143376/1 "2008-07-17T21:05:28Z")

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Hi,

I got a REStful Rails app and would like to create a simple command  
line app (probably later with a GUI) to display/manage data from the  
Rails app.

There are bilions of tutorials/presentation on writing RESTful Rails  
apps, but are there any tutorials how to write simple clients? I.e.  
parsing data from Rails app, how to do authentication (I’m using  
restful\_authentication plugin), error handling etc? It’s nothing very  
complicated, but some examples, tips would be really useful.

Regards

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**Author:** ![g0nzo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/3bc359/32.png) [@g0nzo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/g0nzo)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/are-there-any-tutorials-on-creating-a-client-in-ruby-for-restful-rails-app/143376/2 "2008-07-18T03:39:23Z")

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Hey, [blinksale.com](http://blinksale.com) does a great job explaining how they use their API  
with  
the cURL command-line program. Maybe that would get you going in the  
right  
direction. [Blinksale | Easy Invoicing & Payments](http://www.blinksale.com/api) explains a lton of stuff.