Ruby: POST data to a url - ruby-on-rails

Question

In a rails app I want to be able to post some information to another website inside a method without visiting the website. I'm fairly new to the topic so act as if I’m 5 years old.
My idea so far:
def create_button
button = {
:name => 'test',
:type => 'buy_now',
:callback_url => 'http://www.example.com/my_custom_button_callback',
:description => 'sample description',
:include_email => true
}
"https://thesite.com/api/v1" + button.to_query
# post logic here
end

Answer 1

Ruby ships with the Net::HTTP library for making HTTP requests. There are a lot of gems that wrap HTTP as well, my favorite is Faraday. Look into those libraries, it is pretty straightforward how to make a POST request with them.

Answer 2

There are a lots of gems that do this for free but if you only want to use the standard library, try something like this:
require "net/http"
require 'net/https'
require "uri"
uri = URI.parse("https://thesite.com/api/v1")
https = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host,uri.port)
https.use_ssl = true
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
# I'm unsure if symbols will work
button = {
"name" => 'test',
"type" => 'buy_now',
"callback_url" => 'http://www.example.com/my_custom_button_callback',
"description" => 'sample description',
"include_email" => true
}
req.set_form_data(button)
res = https.request(req)

Answer 3

Try: Net::HTTP
uri = URI.parse("https://thesite.com/api/v1")
button = {
:name => 'test',
:type => 'buy_now',
:callback_url => 'http://www.example.com/my_custom_button_callback',
:description => 'sample description',
:include_email => true
}
res = Net::HTTP.post_form(uri,button)
res.code
res.body # response from api