HTTParty not sending object parameters in POST request - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm building a basic admin rails application for a Service I use to make creating new users more efficient. Right now, I'm doing it manually, within the application, and it has some tedious steps that I'd like to automate.
The service considers users as "Members"
So I've created a Members scaffold in my rails project which has the same parameters as members do in the Service.
Instead of entering some data in the Service application, I want to do that in my app. So I have a form with several parameters that create a Member and save those parameters: :usname :usemail :usstudio_uid
Next, I want to POST to the Service API with the initial fields that were entered to create an "invitation" for the new member.
I'm trying to do that by calling on a HTTParty function in my Member's Show view.
My form is saving the parameters correctly, I'm connecting to the Service API via HTTParty and creating an invitation OK, but the Member parameters I want to send aren't populating. Instead it's turning what I thought was a reference to the parameter in plain text.
Snippet of that function:
:body => {"callback_url" => "https://foo.com/#invitations",
"consumer_key" => "my consumer_key", "email" => :usemail,
I want :usemail to reference the parameter of the Member being referenced in the show page(i.e. cliff#foo.com). Instead, as you'll see below, the Service API instead thinks the parameter is a string, returning "usemail" as the email parameter, not that of the Member object I want to reference.
I'm pretty new to rails and coding, so it's probably an obvious answer, but I spent a good 6 hours yesterday trying to figure it out. Help! :)
members.rb model:
class Member < ActiveRecord::Base
end
members_controller rb:
Class MembersController < ApplicationController
before_action :set_member, only: [:show, :edit, :update, :destroy]
respond_to :html
def index
#members = Member.all
respond_with(#members)
end
def show
#member = Member.find(params[:id])
end
def new
#member = Member.new
respond_with(#member)
end
def edit
respond_with(#member)
#member.save
end
def create
#member = Member.new(member_params)
#member.save
respond_with(#member)
end
def update
#member.update(member_params)
respond_with(#member)
end
def destroy
#member.destroy
respond_with(#member)
end
private
def set_member
#member = Member.find(params[:id])
end
def member_params
params.require(:member).permit(:usname, :usemail, :usphone, :uspassword, :usconfirm_password, :usinvitation_uid, :usstudio_uid, :uscallback_url, :usmember_uid, :ususername, :usaccess_token)
end
end
In my members_helper.rb:
def getinvitation(member)
result = HTTParty.post "https://foo.com/api/v2/studios/studio_uid/invitations", :body => {"callback_url" => "https://foo.com/#invitations",
"consumer_key" => "my consumer_key", "email" => :usemail,
"name" => :usname, "studio_uid" => :usstudio_uid
}.to_json, :headers => {'X-Auth-Token' => "my token"}
JSON.parse(result.body)
x = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(result.body)
end
I call on the function in the member's show path:
views/members/show.html.erb
<%= getinvitation(#member) %>
Here is the response I get:
{"uid"=>"29ad0740f4aa47d788bb2a34e9ab7d78", "studio_uid"=>"ORfspJitFbVG",
"date_sent"=>"Sun Feb 1 16:49:21 2015", callback_url"=>"https://app.ustudio.com/#invitations?
invitation_uid=29ad0740f4aa47d788bb2a34e9ab7d78&studio_uid=ORfspJitFbVG",
"consumer_key"=>"my consumer_key", "email"=>"usemail", "name"=>"usname"}

Answer 1

Basically, this is what I was looking for
"email" => member.usemail not :usemail or "usemail"