Control rails application from Iphone's cucumber

I'm using Frank to test my iPhone app's features. The iPhone app is synchronizing data from a rails application and I would like to cover the synchronization process with acceptance tests. I would like to be able to use the standard ruby commands to manage my rails application's data for example creating a table of products in 开发者_开发百科rails app and then i can check that it gets synchronized on the iPhone. How can i configure cucumber (or Frank) so i can use Product.find_by_name("productname") from my iphone's tests?

I ended up hacking this together:

https://gist.github.com/2033123

Stick it in Frank/features/support

I'm not a great Rails dev so someone could probably clean it up but it works for our purposes.