Provide params hash for put / post requests in rails console

Question

I find it more convenient to check response for some requests from within console

>> app.put '/users/2/' => 500 

But wasn't able to find a way to specify request parameters. How I have to do that?

Answer 1

If you want to put or post to a URL there are also methods for that. You can copy/paste the parameters exactly as they are displayed in your Rails production log:

app.post('/foo', {"this" => "that", "items" => ["bar", "baz"]}) app.put('/foo', {"this" => "that", "items" => ["bar", "baz"]}) 

If you want to sent a custom header, you can add an optional third parameter:

app.post('/foo', {:this => "that", :items => ["bar", "baz"]}, {"X-Do-Something" => "yes"}) 

Any of the get/post/put/delete methods will display their full log output on the console for you to examine. If you want to get information such as the response body returned, HTTP status or response headers these are easy too:

app.response.body  app.response.status  app.response.headers.inspect 

Source: http://andyjeffries.co.uk/articles/debug-level-logging-for-a-single-rails-production-request

Answer 2

The above has changed to

app.post '/foo', params: {"this" => "that", "items" => ["bar", "baz"]} 

Also for forms I had to give an authenticity_token as well. So in my example the full command was

app.post '/login', params: {email: '[email protected]', password: 'abcd', authenticity_token: 'my_authenticity_token_generated_for_this_view' }