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Ruby

Rodrigo Castro
Rodrigo Castro
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Posted by Rodrigo Castro
Rodrigo Castro
15,652 Points

Problem running cURL command

I have exactly the same code as in the tutorial, but when running the following command:

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

It returns a bunch of errors, and I get the following error on the server:

Started POST "/api/todo_lists.json" for 127.0.0.1 at 2016-08-03 15:22:19 +0100 Error occurred while parsing request parameters. Contents:

'{title:Title goes here}'

ActionDispatch::ParamsParser::ParseError (795: unexpected token at ''{title:Title goes here}''):

Does anybody knows the solution?

Thanks in advance. Rodrigo.

Rodrigo Castro
Rodrigo Castro
15,652 Points
Rodrigo Castro
Rodrigo Castro
15,652 Points

I finally found the solution and I am posting here just in case anybody else is having the same problem. Apparently the problem was that I am using Windows cmd which does not parse single quotes when using cURL. I solved the problem by substituting the single quotes by double quotes in the data and using forward slashes before the double quotes inside the brackets. -d "{\"title\": \"Title goes here\"}"

So the final command was:

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