Can't add email to Campaign Monitor API? - ruby

Question

I am trying to create some simple Ruby code to add emails using the Campaign Monitor API. Below is my code.
require 'httparty'
require 'json'
def request
url = 'https://api.createsend.com/api/v3.1/subscribers/MYLISTID.json'
auth = {:username => 'MYAPIKEY', :password => 'x'}
response = HTTParty.post(url,
:basic_auth => auth, :body => {
'EmailAddress' => 'mike#hotmail.com',
'Name' => 'Test',
'Resubscribe' => true,
'RestartSubscriptionBasedAutoresponders' => true
})
puts response
puts response.code
end
request
I can connect with the API. However, when I try to add the email I am getting the following response.
{"Code"=>400, "Message"=>"Failed to deserialize your request.
Please check the documentation and try again.
Fields in error: subscriber"}
400
When I change the request to get instead of put
my response is:
{"Code"=>1, "Message"=>"Invalid Email Address"}
I can't understand what I am doing wrong as I have followed the documentation on the Campaign Monitor API

Answer 1

It looks like you have everything setup correctly, you just need to turn the body of the post into a json string.
response = HTTParty.post(url,
:basic_auth => auth, :body => {
'EmailAddress' => 'mike#hotmail.com',
'Name' => 'Test',
'Resubscribe' => true,
'RestartSubscriptionBasedAutoresponders' => true
}.to_json)
I'd like to point out that a Campaign Monitor API gem also exists that will do all of that work for you.
Campaign Monitor API Gem