super newbie here, how to post xml REST data?

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I have created the simplest rails app using the apple tutorial: http://developer.apple.com/tools/developonrailsleopard.html.

Ok actually I only got halfway through because I really only wanted to try out the basic REST services. Long story short I setup a couple tables and now I'm trying to use POST to create a table entry with an xml doc. Is that possible with the basic 2 minute setup?

Whenever I curl this: curl --data-urlencode "<event><name>AlvinBirthday</name><budget>10000</budget></event>" http://localhost:3000/events.xml

I get a message that it created a record, and it did, it's just blank entries though.

Any ideas on how to do this?

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If you cannot see the problem by code inspection and looking in the log you could use ruby-debug or other debugging technique to break into your app in create see what data you have. See the rails guide on debugging if you don't know how to do this.

Colin