Consuming non-REST APIs in Rails with ActiveResource

Question

I\'m writing a client that consumes a non-REST API (i.e. GET site.com/gettreasurehunts), which requires that I specify all parameters (even the resource ID) in the request\'s HT

Answer 1

I would recommend HTTParty, it's pretty flexible and I'm sure capable of handling what you need.

Some examples from the project:

pp HTTParty.get('http://whoismyrepresentative.com/whoismyrep.php?zip=46544')
pp HTTParty.get('http://whoismyrepresentative.com/whoismyrep.php', :query => {:zip => 46544})

@auth = {:username => u, :password => p}
options = { :query => {:status => text}, :basic_auth => @auth }
HTTParty.post('http://www.twitter.com/statuses/update.json', options)

And if you need to POST something in the body of the request, simply add :body => "text" to the options hash.

It's very straightforward to work with and I'm currently using it in place of ActiveResource to consume some REST services from a Rails app.