Rails - Nov 2007 - Models for external REST services

Hello, I''m new to rails so as an exercise  I''m porting (php to
rails)
a very simple landing page that talks with a third party REST service
where I just need to do a couple of calls to register a user and show
the status of the whole process. I felt this would be dead simple to
do in Rails (I''m still learning) but I''m having a hard time
getting it
working.

My idea was just to have one controller with a couple of actions one
for each REST call an update my view with RJS. It has been kind of
frustating since this was so simple to do in php and I honestly
expected the port to rails to be much simpler, even for someone
learning the framework.

Thanks for your time, I inlcude the code of what I have so far, any
help/links are appreciated

This is what my sign_in partial looks like:

#- view/home/_sign_in.rhtml
   <% remote_form_for :sign_in_form, :url => "home/do_sign_in",
:html
=> { :id => ''sign_in_form'' } do |f| %>
    <br>
    <br>
    <%= f.text_field :mobile_field1%> # by the way, I get an error if
I try to pass options to the textfield
    <%= f.text_field :mobile_field2%> # error says the method just
recieves 2 arguments
    <%= f.text_field :mobile_field3%>

    <%= select_tag("sign_selection",options_for_select(@signs) )
%>
    <%= image_submit_tag("/images/
subscribe_now_btn.gif", :border=>0)%>
  <%end%>
# end snippet
#===========================
And this is what the model looks like (I assume I need a model for the
remote_form_for) and I''m pretty sure this is far from what I need

# model/sign_in_form.rb

class SignInForm < ActiveRecord::Base

 
attr_accessor :mobile_field1, :mobile_field2, :mobile_field3, :mobile_number,
:sign


  def mobile_number=(val)
    @mobile_number = val
  end

# mobile_number  is supposed to be some sort of virtual attribute
  def mobile_number
    @mobile_field1+@mobile_field2+@mobile_field3
  end

  def sign=(val)
    @sign = val.capitalize
  end

  def sign
    @sign
  end

  def mobile_field1=(val)
    @mobile_field1 = val
  end

  def mobile_field1
    @mobile_field1
  end

#getters and setters for the other mobile_field

# end snippet



#===========================On the side of the controlloer I have no idea how to
start, this is
what I think it should look like,


def do_sign_in

  @sign_in_form #this should come from the form in the view, I have no
idea how to get this object

  api_url = "www.example.com/some_api.php"

  response = some_object.do_post (api_url, :params =>{ "api_key"
=>
@key, "param1" => @sign_in_form.field1, "param2" =>
@sign_in_form.field2, } )

 # after this we should go to a do_sign_in.rjs and do all the ajax
updates

end

#===========================

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