How do I make a POST request with open-uri?

Question

Is it possible to make a POST request from Ruby with open-uri?

Answer 1

As simple as it gets:

require 'open-uri'
require 'net/http'

response = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse("https://httpbin.org/post"), { a: 1 })

puts response.code
puts response.message
puts response.body

I recommend using response.methods - Object.methods to see all the available methods, e.g. message, header,

Bonus: POST / DELETE requests:

puts Net::HTTP.new("httpbin.org").post("/post", "a=1").body
puts Net::HTTP.new("httpbin.org").delete("/delete").body