Login and use rails from C++

Question

I need to use a rails app from C++. I say login in the title because that's one of my options.

As far as I see it, I either need to do the standard login, and keep track of a session or something in the C++ code, or use an API token of sorts, and just pass that on every URL and never actually create a session on the rails side (which uses restful_authentication).

Are those my only two options? Are there any nice C++ libs to deal with RESTful services or specifically rails?

The C++ side of things is on Windows btw.

Answer 1

It may be lower-level than you're looking for, but I believe you should be able to accomplish this sort of thing with libcurl (and, potentially, libxml if you need an HTML or XML parser to handle return values).