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Ruby Build a Rails API Coding the API Rails API CSRF Verification

Carlos Carrillo
Carlos Carrillo
1,642 Points
Posted by Carlos Carrillo
Carlos Carrillo
1,642 Points

Im following the steps but my code breaks

Althought I follow these steps, it breaks:
curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"title":"The Title will go here"}' http://localhost:3000/api/todo_lists

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Content-Type: application/json Cache-Control: no-cache X-Request-Id: 4e2eec08-3a6f-4569-8ed2-bf7145226312 X-Runtime: 0.002951 Server: WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/2.2.2/2015-04-13) Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 14:49:09 GMT Content-Length: 0 Connection: Keep-Alive Set-Cookie: request_method=POST; path=/

Any idea? Thanks in advance

1 Answer

Michael Cola
Michael Cola
9,584 Points
Michael Cola
Michael Cola
9,584 Points

Make sure that your todo_list passes the validations set in app/models/todo_list.rb I added "description to app/controllers/api/todo_list_controller.rb file in the 

params.require("todo_list").permit("title", "description")` line.

I didn't have a description, and my validations require that I have a description.

So my curl command went as such: 

curl \ 
-i \ 
-H "Accept: application/json" \
 -H "Content-type: application/json" \ 
-X POST \ 
-d '{"title":"Title goes here", "description":"description goes here"}' \
 http://localhost:3000/api/todo_lists

or written out it goes as such:

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"title":"title goes here", "description":"description goes here"}' http://localhost:3000/api/todo_lists

Note that after adding "description" to the params line i was able to create one without a description as well.