Ruby example of Net::HTTP for GET, POST, PUT, DELETE - ruby

Question

I'm trying to learn Ruby for the first time. I have some experience in PHP and in PHP, I made a function like
function call_api(endpoint,method,arr_parameters='')
{
// do a CURL call
}
Which I would use like
call_api('https://api.com/user','get','param=1&param=2');
call_api('https://api.com/user/1','get');
call_api('https://api.com/user/1','post','param=1&param=2');
call_api('https://api.com/user/1','put','param=1&param=2');
call_api('https://api.com/user/1','delete');
So far, I've only learned how to do a GET and POST call with Ruby like so:
conn = Net::HTTP.new(API_URL, API_PORT)
resppost = conn.post("/user", 'param=1', {})
respget = conn.get("/user?param=1",{})
But I don't know how to do a delete and put. Can someone show sample code for the delete and put calls with the Net::HTTP object?

Answer 1

You would just namespace it:
Net::HTTP::Put.new(uri)
Same with delete:
Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri)
You can even do that with your existing calls:
conn = Net::HTTP.new(uri)
con.get(path)
that is equivalent to:
Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

Answer 2

For DELETE you can use conn.delete("/user/1", {}) or
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new("/user/1")
response = conn.request(request)
For PUT,
response = http.set_request('PUT', "/user/1", "param=1")
or
Net::HTTP::Put.new(path)

Answer 3

I like the Faraday gem. I find its design the simplest.
Once you gem install faraday you can require 'faraday' and do:
result = Faraday.get('http://google.es')
You can also POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.
Faraday.delete('http://google.es')
Faraday.post('http://google.es', {some_parameter: 'hello'})
Project: https://github.com/lostisland/faraday

Answer 4

Can I suggest a look at httparty? They offer some really awesome examples right on their page to do exactly what you want to do.
response = HTTParty.get('https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?site=stackoverflow')
puts response.body, response.code, response.message, response.headers.inspect
And many more examples of calling different endpoints.