Ruby Net::HTTP::Get and JSON responses

Question

I'm trying to connect to an API and retrieve the json results with my rails app, however it doesn't seem to work.

Take for example:

@request = Net::HTTP::Get.new "http://example.com/?search=thing&format=json" 

When I try the url in my browser it works! and I get JSON data, however when I try that in Ruby the body is nil.

>> y @request --- !ruby/object:Net::HTTP::Get  body:  body_stream:  header:    accept:    - "*/*"   user-agent:    - Ruby method: GET path: http://example.com/?search=thing&format=json request_has_body: false response_has_body: true 

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I usually use open-uri

require 'open-uri' content = open("http://your_url.com").read 

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Answer 2

You need to actually send the request and retrieve a response object, like this:

response = Net::HTTP.get_response("example.com","/?search=thing&format=json") puts response.body //this must show the JSON contents 

Regards!

PS: While using ruby's HTTP lib, this page has some useful examples.