Use model#prefix_options which is a hash for passing params into query string (or even as substitions for parts of the Model. Prefix, e.g. "/myresource/:param/" will be replaced by the value of prefix_options:param . Any hash keys not found in the prefix will be added to the query string, which is what we want in your case).
I recently was faced with a similar issue, if you are on Rails3, it supports using custom header which makes life much easier for these situations.
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