How to build postman request for Rails POST method

Question

No matter how I format the raw portion of this request, I cannot avoid the parsing error below.

I have a Rails API with a create method that passes the spec, to illu

Answer 1

Single quotes (') are not actually the legal string delimiter in JSON: a string must be enclosed in double quotes ("). You can get away with it in the browser, since they are string delimiters in javascript. You can easily replicate this in an irb session

JSON.parse(%q[{'foo': 'bar'}]) #=> raises JSON::ParserError
JSON.parse(%q[{"foo": "bar"}]) #=> ok

In addition, given your spec you should be using the second form i.e.

{
  "power_up": {
    "name": "foo",
    "description": "bar"
   }
}