Changing Content-Type to JSON using HTTParty

Question

I am trying to use Ruby on Rails to communicate with the Salesforce API. I can fetch data easily enough but I am having problems posting data to the server. I am using HTTPa

Answer 1

The Content-Type header needs to be set to "application/json". This can be done by inserting :headers => {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'} as a parameter to post, ie:

response = post(Accounts.root_url+"/sobjects/Account/", 
  :body => {:name => "graham"}.to_json,
  :headers => {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'} )