Node.js PUT or POST request to Rails 3 Server

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Node.js PUT or POST request to Rails 3 Server

I'm trying to make a PUT and/or POST request from Node.js to my Rails 3 server. I am passing my parameters in the body but they are not getting turned into the params hash in the Rails controller. My code is as follows:

http = require('http');
request = require('request');
qs = require('qs');

data = qs.stringify({name: 'Aaron', points: 10});
request_opts = {
  uri: 'http://localhost:3000/users/update',
  method: 'PUT',
  body: data
}

request(request_opts, function() { console.log(arguments) });

I put a debugger in my Rails controller and params is nil but response.body.read returns the string I have in data.

How can I make a PUT / POST request from Node.js where the parameters are compatible with Rails?

ruby-on-rails
node.js

Answer 1

The querystring module will serialize your data as a parameter encoded form. By default rails expects a JSON serialized entity. You should use JSON.stringify instead of qs.stringify to serialize the your user into the request body. Alternatively, you can explicitly specify a content-type header of application/x-www-form-urlencoded to tell rails the type of the body you are sending.