How can I send an HTTP PUT request in Ruby?

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finiteloop picture finiteloop · Jul 9, 2012 · Viewed 21.4k times · Source

I am trying to send a PUT request to a particular URL, and have thus far been unsuccessful in doing so.

If I were doing it through an HTTP requester GUI, such as this one, it would be as simple as doing a PUT on the following url:

http://www.mywebsite.com:port/Application?key=apikey&id=id&option=enable|disable

Note that a port number is specified in the above request. I will also need to do that when submitting the request through the ruby code.

How can I replicate such a request in Ruby?

Answer

Larry OBrien picture Larry OBrien · Jul 9, 2012 
require 'net/http'

port = 8080
host = "127.0.0.1"
path = "/Application?key=apikey&id=id&option=enable"

req = Net::HTTP::Put.new(path, initheader = { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain'})
req.body = "whatever"
response = Net::HTTP.new(host, port).start {|http| http.request(req) }
puts response.code

Larry's answer helped point me in the right direction. A little more digging helped me find a more elegant solution guided by this answer.

http = Net::HTTP.new('www.mywebsite.com', port)
response = http.send_request('PUT', '/path/from/host?id=id&option=enable|disable')

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