Trouble including httparty in ruby on rails

Question

I've been trying to use HTTParty in my rails code

sudo gem install httparty

From the command line I can now successfully do

httparty "http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json"

When I try this in my rails app

require 'rubygems'
require 'httparty'

class FooController < ApplicationController
  include HTTParty

  def bar
    blah = HTTParty.get("http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json")
  end
end

I get the error message "no such file to load -- httparty"

I suspect there is something wrong with my environment?

Answer 1

You don't need to do 'include HTTParty' inside the Controller. Just remove that and it should work. I just tested it and it worked for me. If this doesn't work for you, you should add the gem to your environment.

Usually if you use a gem inside your Rails application, you should add the following to environment.rb:

config.gem "httparty"

The gem will be available in the application now and you don't need to add 'require' inside the Controller. Also, you don't need to require RubyGems inside a Controller.

When you use Rails 3, you need to put the following inside the Gemfile:

gem "httparty"

I hope it works for you. :)

Answer 2

The problem is, if you load a new gem, you have to restart the server even if you are in development.

Answer 3

I had this same error. I tried moving the require HTTParty all over, but found, all I needed to do was restart the rails server In the end I did not need to 'require HTTParty' nor 'include' it. It just needed to be loaded into rails.