Cannot make HTTP Delete request with Ruby's net/http library - ruby

Question

I've been trying to make an API call to my server to delete a user record help on a dev database. When I use Fiddler to call the URL with the DELETE operation I am able to immediately delete the user record. When I call that same URL, again with the DELETE operation, from my script below, I get this error:
{"Message":"The requested resource does not support http method 'DELETE'."}
I have changed the url in my script below. The url I am using is definitely correct. I suspect that there is a logical error in my code that I haven't caught. My script:
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'pp'
require 'uri'
def deleteUserRole
# prepare request
url= "http://my.database.5002143.access" # dev
uri = URI.parse(url)
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri.path)
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
# send the request
response = http.request(request)
puts "response: \n"
puts response.body
puts "response code: " + response.code + "\n \n"
# parse response
buffer= response.body
result = JSON.parse(buffer)
status= result["Success"]
if status == true
then puts "passed"
else puts "failed"
end
end
deleteUserRole

Answer 1

It turns out that I was typing in the wrong command. I needed to change this line:
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri.path)
to this line:
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri)
By typing uri.path I was excluding part of the URL from the API call. When I was debugging, I would type puts uri and that would show me the full URL, so I was certain the URL was right. The URL was right, but I was not including the full URL in my DELETE call.

Answer 2

if you miss the parameters to pass while requesting delete, it won't work
you can do like this
uri = URI.parse('http://localhost/test')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
attribute_url = '?'
attribute_url << body.map{|k,v| "#{k}=#{v}"}.join('&')
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri.request_uri+attribute_url)
response = http.request(request)
where body is a hashmap where you can define query params as a hashmap.. while sending request it can be joined in the url by the code above.
ex:body = { :resname => 'res', :bucket_name => 'bucket', :uploaded_by => 'upload' }