Posting Large Amounts of Data with Httparty

How can I implement this POST request using HTTParty?

Just a guess, but it looks like you're passing a hash in the body when JSON is expected.

Try replacing the :body declaration with:

:body => [{ "amount" => "0.25", 
             "platform" => "gittip", 
             "username" => "whit537" }].to_json

Edit:
I suggested the to_json serializer, but misplaced it by putting it after the hash instead of the array and removing the array altogether. The example uses multiple records, so the array is necessary.

After looking at this thread, it looks like Gittip is picky about the accept header.

:headers => { 'Content-Type' => 'application/json', 'Accept' => 'application/json'}

So, the full suggestion is:

HTTParty.post("https://www.gittip.com/#{user}/tips.json",
  { 
    :body => [ { "amount" => "0.25", "platform" => "gittip", "username" => "whit537" } ].to_json,
    :basic_auth => { :username => api_key },
    :headers => { 'Content-Type' => 'application/json', 'Accept' => 'application/json'}
  })

POST JSON to API using Rails and HTTParty

I solved this by adding .to_json and some heading information

@result = HTTParty.post(@urlstring_to_post.to_str, 
    :body => { :subject => 'This is the screen name', 
               :issue_type => 'Application Problem', 
               :status => 'Open', 
               :priority => 'Normal', 
               :description => 'This is the description for the problem'
             }.to_json,
    :headers => { 'Content-Type' => 'application/json' } )

Posting with httparty records and children records

Parent has_many Kids, then its expected to have an array here, try the following:

:kids => @parent.kids.map {|kid| {:school_name => kid.school.name, :age => kid.school.age }}

HTTParty POST is sending a GET

Change your request to use HTTPS, not HTTP:

https://api.github.com/repos/my_github/my_repo/issues/1/comments

instead of:

http://api.github.com/repos/my_github/my_repo/issues/1/comments

and you get:

response.request
=> #<HTTParty::Request:0x00007ffdb81c7e48 @changed_hosts=false, @credentials_sent=false, @http_method=Net::HTTP::Post ...

as well as:

response.code
=> 201

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