POST JSON to API using Rails and HTTParty

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I would like for a user within my ruby on rails app to be able to submit a ticket to my external ticket management system  squishlist com  They have an api and instructions as follows  You need to authenticate and get a token and then submit the ticket with the token  From squishlist      get the token  https   api squishlist com auth  cfg testcorp amp user key privatekey amp api key TEST-KEY-12345     gt    token    authtoken          expires    2010-06-16 13 31 56      and then the ticket with the token  https   api squishlist com rest  cfg testcorp amp token authtoken amp method squish issue submit amp prj demo   POST data    issue type   1   subject    Hello  world    4   Open   5  10    For testing purposes  I created a controller  route and view  page  for testing  On my controller I have the following   require  httparty  require  json   class SubmitticketController  lt  ApplicationController      def submit a ticket           cfg    xxxsupport           user key    4787fsdbbfbfsdbhbfad5aba91129a3f1ed1b743321f7b           api key    MrUser411           project    excelm-manoke           url new string    https   api squishlist com auth  cfg    cfg   amp user key    user key   amp api key    api key           https   api squishlist com auth  cfg xxxsupport amp user key 4787fsdbbfbfsdbhbfad5aba91129a3f1ed1b743321f7b amp api key MrUser411  - this is what is created by  url new string         response    HTTParty get  url new string to str    submit the string to get the token          parsed and a hash   JSON parse response           token    parsed and a hash  token              make a new string with the token           urlstring to post    https   api squishlist com rest  cfg    cfg   amp token    token   amp method squish issue submit amp prj    project           submit and get a result           result   HTTParty post  urlstring to post to str   body   gt    subject   gt   This is the screen name    issue type   gt   Application Problem    status   gt   Open    priority   gt   Normal    description   gt   This is the description for the problem         end  end   And then I have a page that I go to to see the result of the controllers actions and it has the following code     lt p gt  lt     result   gt  lt  p gt    I know that it is working in general because of responses I have received along the way  My json is different from the example because of fields I have defined in squishlist  Can anyone help me out on this issue    I guess the real problem is that I can t really see what the json looks like and if it is even close to match  I really don t know much about json  Should I be using something that might be easy  Should I be using ajax to submit this  Any help is greatly appreciated  I love the community here

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The  query string normalizer option is also available  which will override the default normalizer HashConversions to params query    query string normalizer  - gt  query  query to json

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I solved this by adding  to json and some heading information   result   HTTParty post  urlstring to post to str        body   gt     subject   gt   This is the screen name                    issue type   gt   Application Problem                    status   gt   Open                    priority   gt   Normal                    description   gt   This is the description for the problem                 to json       headers   gt     Content-Type    gt   application json

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