How to build postman request for Rails POST method

Question

No matter how I format the raw portion of this request, I cannot avoid the parsing error below.

I have a Rails API with a create method that passes the spec, to illu

Answer 1

Sorry bit too late to answer this but might help someone else.

All you need to do is - in your request header (in postman or whatever client) add

Content-Type = 'application/json'

Alternatively, you can also try it with curl (source):

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"power_up": { "name": "foo", "description": "bar" } }' 127.0.01:3000/v1/power_ups.json