A simple command line client for JSON (Rails) APIs - basically a curl wrapper

gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/bash

baseurl='http://localhost:3000'
output_file=zb.out
rm $output_file
action=`echo $1 | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`
shift
url=$1.json
shift

while (( "$#" )); do
  params="$params -d \"$1\""
  shift
done

cmd="curl -s -o $output_file -w \"%{http_code}\" -X $action $params $baseurl/$url"
echo $cmd
http_status=`eval $cmd`
echo HTTP status: $http_status

if [ -f $output_file ]; then
  cat $output_file | python -mjson.tool 2> /dev/null
fi