Submitting a POST request from a rails controller - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have followed the answer of this question. And this is what i have.
def index
$response = get_insta_feed
end
def get_insta_feed
require "net/http"
require 'net/https'
require "uri"
$tag = "test"
uri = URI.parse("https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/"+$tag+"/media/recent")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(parameters)
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
http.request(request).to_json
end
private
def parameters
{
"access_token" => "my access token here"
}
end
on my view page i just want to display the full json response first before parsing the data that i want to display so this:
<div>
<%=$response%>
</div>
and this is what is displayed in my div:
{"server":["nginx"],"date":["Fri, 07 Nov 2014 06:13:34 GMT"],"content-type":["text/html; charset=utf-8"],"allow":["GET"],"content-language":["en"],"expires":["Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT"],"vary":["Cookie, Accept-Language"],"pragma":["no-cache"],"cache-control":["private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"],"set-cookie":["csrftoken=e70981e518d478dd7362049f9ce89cc9; expires=Fri, 06-Nov-2015 06:13:34 GMT; Max-Age=31449600; Path=/","ccode=PH; Path=/"],"connection":["close"]}
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Please use instagram gem for the connection tasks to Instagram. For example you can use it as follows:
client = Instagram.client(:access_token => session[:access_token])
for media_item in client.tag_recent_media(tag_name)
# Use the folowing fields...
# media_item.images.thumbnail.url
# media_item.id
# media_item.likes[:count]
end
For more information of the gem, please refer to its github page.