Ruby send JSON request

Question

How do I send a JSON request in ruby? I have a JSON object but I dont think I can just do .send. Do I have to have javascript send the form?

Or can I us

Answer 1

real life example, notify Airbrake API about new deployment via NetHttps

require 'uri'
require 'net/https'
require 'json'

class MakeHttpsRequest
  def call(url, hash_json)
    uri = URI.parse(url)
    req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.to_s)
    req.body = hash_json.to_json
    req['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
    # ... set more request headers 

    response = https(uri).request(req)

    response.body
  end

  private

  def https(uri)
    Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port).tap do |http|
      http.use_ssl = true
      http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
    end
  end
end

project_id = 'yyyyyy'
project_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
url = "https://airbrake.io/api/v4/projects/#{project_id}/deploys?key=#{project_key}"
body_hash = {
  "environment":"production",
  "username":"tomas",
  "repository":"https://github.com/equivalent/scrapbook2",
  "revision":"live-20160905_0001",
  "version":"v2.0"
}

puts MakeHttpsRequest.new.call(url, body_hash)

Notes:

in case you doing authentication via Authorisation header set header req['Authorization'] = "Token xxxxxxxxxxxx" or http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/HttpAuthentication/Token.html