Ruby HTTP sending API key Basic_auth - ruby

Question

I have been following a tutorial on GitHub Pages and
I am trying to pass an Apikey to a webservice as basic auth 'apiKey' => 'huda7da97hre3rhr1yrh0130409u1u' for example but I cannot work out how to implement it into the method, or even if that is the proper place for it.
I have a class called connection with my request method in it. I need to post 'apiKey' as header and not in the body. I have read the ruby docs but I cannot work out how to apply it to this specific class.
require "net/http"
require "uri"
require "ostruct"
require "json"
class Connection
ENDPOINT = "http://localhost"
APP_LOCATION = "/task_manager/v1/"
VERB_MAP = {
:get => Net::HTTP::Get,
:post => Net::HTTP::Post,
:put => Net::HTTP::Put,
:delete => Net::HTTP::Delete
}
def initialize(endpoint = ENDPOINT)
uri = URI.parse(endpoint)
#http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
end
def get(path, params)
request_json :get, path, params
end
def post(path, params)
request_json :post, APP_LOCATION + path, params
end
def put(path, params)
request_json :put, path, params
end
def delete(path, params)
request_json :delete, path, params
end
private
def request_json(method, path, params)
response = request(method, path, params)
body = JSON.parse(response.body)
OpenStruct.new(:code => response.code, :body => body)
rescue JSON::ParserError
response
end
def request(method, path, params = {})
case method
when :get
full_path = encode_path_params(path, params)
request = VERB_MAP[method.to_sym].new(full_path)
else
request = VERB_MAP[method.to_sym].new(path)
request.set_form_data(params)
end
#http.request(request)
end
def encode_path_params(path, params)
encoded = URI.encode_www_form(params)
[path, encoded].join("?")
end
end
If I post to the server using Advanced Rest Client and put the apikey in the
http://localhost/task_manager/v1/tasks?=
header
Authorization: 9c62acdda8fe12507a435345bb9b2338
and in the body
email=free%40mail.com&password=free&task=test
then I get
{
error: false
message: "Task created successfully"
task_id: 5
}
So how can I post it using this class?.
connection = Connection.new
result = connection.post("task", {'task' => 'task'})

Answer 1

Basic Authentication example:
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req.basic_auth 'user', 'pass'
http://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/trunk/Net/HTTP.html#class-Net::HTTP-label-Basic+Authentication
Or if you want to add a raw Authorization header in your request method you can do
request.add_field 'Authorization', 'huda7da97hre3rhr1yrh0130409u1u'
But basic authentication normally means that there is a user name and a password. With your API key - I am not sure you actually need basic authentication. I do not know what you API actually requires but if you have not tried it yet you can try sending the api key as an additional parameter
result = connection.post("register", {'email' => email, 'name' => name, 'password' => password, 'apiKey' => 'huda7da97hre3rhr1yrh0130409u1u' })