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Asked: 2026-05-19T14:38:34+00:00

I want to test my rails web service using cURL, yet so far I

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I want to test my rails web service using cURL, yet so far I could only do it while deactivating before_filter :authenticate_user!. But I’d like to log in a priori and then create, destroy etc.

I saw that with cURL you can authenticate and save the session info in a cookie, that you use for your following requests, yet I couldn’t make it work with Devise: in my scenario, the user logs in using an email/password combination, so I’m trying:

curl \
  -X POST \
  -d 'email=email@example.com&password=password' \
  -c cookie \
  http://localhost:3000/users/sign_in > out

and I get: ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken in Devise/sessionsController#create

Could somebody give me an idea / an example?

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    This works:

    Authenticate:

    curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -X POST http://localhost:3000/users/sign_in \
  -d "{'user' : { 'email' : 'test@example.com', 'password' : 'password'}}" \
  -c cookie

    Show:

    curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -X GET http://localhost:3000/pages/1.xml \
  -b cookie
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