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Ruby

Zachary Betz
Zachary Betz
10,413 Points
Posted by Zachary Betz
Zachary Betz
10,413 Points

Use these small tweaks to make the curl command work in Windows

The original curl command, which presumably works on Mac and Linux, is below. 

curl \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-type: application/json" \
-X POST \
-d '{"title":"The Title will go here"}' \
http://localhost:3000/api/todo_lists.json

However, if you are like me, and are following along on a Windows machine, this won't work for you. To make it work, I had to replace the multi-line characters (replace \ with ^), replace the single quotes around the JSON with double quotes, then escape all double quotes within the JSON (replace " with \"). Here's the updated command. 

curl ^
-H "Accept: application/json" ^
-H "Content-type: application/json" ^
-X POST ^
-d "{\"title\":\"The Title will go here\"}" ^
http://localhost:3000/api/todo_lists.json

1 Answer

Christian Bradford
Christian Bradford
5,312 Points
Christian Bradford
Christian Bradford
5,312 Points

Thanks for this!