10. Ruby Beyond the Basics II

Activity 10.01: Implementing GET and POST Data to an External Server

Solution:

1. We first require the gem, and then need to assign our GET request API to a url variable. We then make a GET call using httparty and display the response using an in-built method, parsed_response, which properly parses the JSON response:

   require 'httparty'
   url = 'https://www.akshatpaul.com/ruby-fundamentals/list-all-buildings'
   response = HTTParty.get(url)
   puts response.parsed_response

2. Run this code from the Terminal using the following command:

   $ruby get_request.rb

   The output should be as follows:

   

   Figure 10.22: GET request output

   You can implement the same code without a third-party gem dependency by using the in-built net/http library and the JSON library. To try this, refer to the code in the get_request_net.rb file:

   require 'net/http'
   require 'json'
   url = 'https://www.akshatpaul.com/ruby-fundamentals/list-all-buildings...