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ed1t
ed1t

Reputation: 8689

POST in rails 3

How can I call some webservices in rails 3 using POST params to an external URL? I usually use something like this to post from the command line

curl -X POST -u "v10REVkw:XuCqIhyCw" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{"apids": ["c80-d363237c-e513b"], "android": {"alert": "Android  Test!"}}' \
https://url/to/push

Upvotes: 0

Views: 654

Answers (4)

Tanel Suurhans
Tanel Suurhans

Reputation: 1761

Interesting enough that no-one hasn't so far suggested HTTParty, which is imho one of the simplest HTTP libs out there :)

http://httparty.rubyforge.org/

Upvotes: 0

apneadiving
apneadiving

Reputation: 115511

Here is a detailled way to achieve what you expect extracted from one of my gems.

Just adapt and trigger with remote.

def remote
  begin
    Net::HTTP.get_response((uri)).body
  rescue 
    #what you want here
  end
end

def gateway
  'http://api.opencalais.com/enlighten/rest/'
end

def uri
  URI.parse(gateway + '?' + URI.escape(post_params.collect{ |k, v| "#{k}=#{v}" }.join('&')))
end

def post_params
  {
    'licenseID' => @api_key,
    'content'   => @context
  }
end

EDIT:

Be sure you have this included:

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'open-uri'

EDIT2:

If you're interacting with RESTful webservice, consider using ActiveResource

Upvotes: 0

retro
retro

Reputation: 3785

You can use ActiveResource, it is part of Rails package.

Upvotes: 0

mikewilliamson
mikewilliamson

Reputation: 24783

I think I would use Rest client. Here is an example straight from their docs:

RestClient.post "http://example.com/resource", { 'x' => 1 }.to_json, :content_type => :json, :accept => :json

Upvotes: 2

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