I'm new in Ruby/Rails and I am trying to create simple API that will hold beer model (name and alcohol percent). I implemented API with rails gem rails-api but I have problem with sending POST request. I'm getting 400 ERROR due to bad syntax (using postman for sending requests).
I dont know what I am doing wrong. Here's my beers controller:
class BeersController < ApplicationController
before_action :set_beer, only: [:show, :update, :destroy]
# GET /beers
# GET /beers.json
def index
@beers = Beer.all
render json: @beers
end
# GET /beers/1
# GET /beers/1.json
def show
render json: @beer
end
# POST /beers
# POST /beers.json
def create
@beer = Beer.new(beer_params)
if @beer.save
render json: @beer, status: :created, location: @beer
else
render json: @beer.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity
end
end
# PATCH/PUT /beers/1
# PATCH/PUT /beers/1.json
def update
@beer = Beer.find(params[:id])
if @beer.update(beer_params)
head :no_content
else
render json: @beer.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity
end
end
# DELETE /beers/1
# DELETE /beers/1.json
def destroy
@beer.destroy
head :no_content
end
private
def set_beer
@beer = Beer.find(params[:id])
end
def beer_params
params.require(:beer).permit(:name, :percent)
end
end
Hope you can help me solve this problem.
When I print logs after this request I get this from Heroku logs:
2015-04-06T11:51:40.715123+00:00 heroku[router]: at=info method=POST path="/beer s" host=drinkapptest.herokuapp.com request_id=e4557a13-1391-4e30-ab8a-069e714b93 d0 fwd="89.164.165.138" dyno=web.1 connect=0ms service=9ms status=400 bytes=264
Your POST
from postman app should be structured to be something like this:
beer[name] testing
beer[percent] 1