Ruby on Rails default to POST when accessed with Android Studio - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have some experience using android studio but am fairly new to ruby on rails and have been trying to create a restful application. I generated a scaffold called Employer so it has the default routes,
employers GET /employers(.:format) employers#index
POST /employers(.:format) employers#create
and have been trying to read the employers list by parsing the JSON like so in android studio:
ProgressDialog pdLoading = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
HttpURLConnection conn;
URL url = null;
String response = "";
TextView errdisplay = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.fishytext);
#Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
//this method will be running on UI thread
pdLoading.setMessage("\tLoading...");
pdLoading.setCancelable(false);
pdLoading.show();
}
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
try {
// Enter URL address where your json file resides
url = new URL("MYIP.../employers.json");
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
return e.toString();
}
try {
// Setup HttpURLConnection class to send and receive data from php and mysql
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setReadTimeout(READ_TIMEOUT);
conn.setConnectTimeout(CONNECTION_TIMEOUT);
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
// setDoOutput to true as we recieve data from json file
conn.setDoOutput(true);
} catch (IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
return e1.toString();
}
try {
int response_code = conn.getResponseCode();
// Check if successful connection made
if (response_code == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
// Read data sent from server
InputStream input = conn.getInputStream();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input));
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
result.append(line);
response+= line;
}
return (result.toString());
} else {
return ("unsuccessful");
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return e.toString();
} finally {
conn.disconnect();
}
}
My problem is that despite changing my RequestMethod to GET it defaults to POST in rails which has left me quite confused.
Started POST "/employers.json"
I understand this is a routes issue and have managed to get it work(if you can call it that) through forcibly changing the routes as shown below but i realize this will affect my future attempts at REST.
post 'employers' => 'employers#index'
I apologize if this isn't the right format but i would be very grateful for any advice on how to fix my routes or how to access the JSON url. Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

Many thanks to the user sahil for pointing me in the right direction. At the moment i still haven't managed to access Rails though anything other than POST so for anybody in a similar situation the work around im using is to change the routes to modify the url.
post 'employers/display' => 'employers#index'
post 'employers/newindex' => 'employers#create'
so that the url i need to access instead will be "/employers/display.json" for GET and "/employers/newindex.json" for POST, from how i defined them in the employers_controller. It's not a very good answer but ill update this again when i know more.