JSON Rest-Client Authorization in Rails - ruby-on-rails

Question

For some reason when I run this in my Rails console it is not working.
RestClient.post 'http://localhost/WebService/AuthenticateLogin', :content_type => :json, {:params => {:RuntimeEnvironment => 1, 'Email' => 'someone#example.com', 'Password' => 'Pa$$worD'}}
The odd part is when I do the same with cURL it works perfectly fine:
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"RuntimeEnvironment":1,"Email":"someone#example.com","Password":"Pa$$worD"}' -X POST http://localhost/WebService/AuthenticateLogin
Here is my stacktrace:
SyntaxError: (irb):33: syntax error, unexpected '\n', expecting =>
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/railties-4.2.0/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:110:in `start'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/railties-4.2.0/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:9:in `start'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/railties-4.2.0/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:68:in `console'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/railties-4.2.0/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:39:in `run_command!
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/railties-4.2.0/lib/rails/commands.rb:17:in `<top (required)>'
from bin/rails:4:in `require'
from bin/rails:4:in `<main>'
And because I think it may be relevant, I used this statement as well:
RestClient.post 'http://localhost/WebService/AuthenticateLogin', :content_type => :json, :params => {:RuntimeEnvironment => 1, 'Email' => 'someone#example.com', 'Password' => 'Pa$$worD'}
And got this as my stacktrace:
RestClient.post "http://localhost/WebService/AuthenticateLogin", "content_type=json&params[RuntimeEnvironment]=1&params[Email]=someone%40example.com&params[Password]=Pa$$worD", "Accept"=>"*/*; q=0.5, application/
xml", "Accept-Encoding"=>"gzip, deflate", "Content-Length"=>"114", "Content-Type"=>"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
# => 400 BadRequest | text/html 2738 bytes
RestClient::BadRequest: 400 Bad Request
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/abstract_response.rb:48:in `return!'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:230:in `process_result'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:178:in `block in transmit'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/http.rb:852:in `start'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:172:in `transmit'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:64:in `execute'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient/request.rb:33:in `execute'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/rest-client-1.6.7/lib/restclient.rb:72:in `post'
from (irb):34
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/railties-4.2.0/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:110:in `start'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/railties-4.2.0/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:9:in `start'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/railties-4.2.0/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:68:in `console'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/railties-4.2.0/lib/rails/commands/commands_tasks.rb:39:in `run_command!'
from C:/Ruby200-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/railties-4.2.0/lib/rails/commands.rb:17:in `<top (required)>'
from bin/rails:4:in `require'
from bin/rails:4:in `<main>'
I have scoured Stack and tried different ways of listing out the params, moving/removing the content_type, etc. Nothing is working for me.

Answer 1

You don't need to nest the params like that. Just do:
RestClient.post 'http://localhost/WebService/AuthenticateLogin', {"RuntimeEnvironment" => 1, 'Email' => 'someone#example.com', 'Password' => 'Pa$$worD'}, :content_type => :json

Answer 2

I noticed my content_type was not being updated, searched it up and StackOverflow came through for me.
How do I make Ruby's RestClient gem respect content_type on post?
I basically just changed my request to be:
RestClient.post 'http://localhost/WebService/AuthenticateLogin', '{"RuntimeEnvironment":1, "Email":"someone#example.com", "Password":"Pa$$worD"}', :content_type => "json"
I merely added quotes around my params like so: '{params}'
And instead of using => in the params, I changed to colons just like the actual request I used in cURL and everything worked like a charm.
Also note I quoted the "json" content_type.
Thanks #rlarcombe for your help.