show JSON response from api in the view

Question

I am trying to get a response from the movie db using its default response, using the movies id http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/. Haven’t done this before so lots of mistakes im sure.

So I'm using the gems httparty and json and have setup everything like so

controller

require 'httparty'
require 'json'

class MainController < ApplicationController

 def index

 @response = HTTParty.get("http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/550?api_key="api_key")
 JSON.parse(response)
 end
 end

and my view

<%= @response %>

just wanted to see what was returned.

I get the error can't convert ActionDispatch::Response into String

I was wondering if someone could offer some advice or some resources to look at to learn how do do this, and maybe some different methods to display the info returned.

I know that a hash is a collection of key/values but lack the knowledge to extract that data

Thank you

Answer 1

I think the problem is actually your controller, not your view.

JSON.parse(response) 

should be

JSON.parse(@response)

You probably want in your view:

<%= @response.body %>