How do I handle, parse, a colon in the url with httparty and json

Question

I'm trying to parse the Mochi Media API on my site. Unfortunately, they make use of colons in their API URLs....

http://feedmonger.mochimedia.com/feeds/query/?q=(recommendation:>=0) and category:action&partner_id=XXXX

The question is, using httparty, how do I parse that url given that the :query/options hash will automatically convert to a standard query string:

get('/myNewApiUrl', :query => {:key => value}) | http://base/myNewApiUrl?key=value&key2=value2

I need something to handle this:

get('/myNewApiUrl', :query => {:key => value}) | http://base/myNewApiUrl?key:value&key2=value2

Can anyone help me out... just about ready to bang my head against a wall. :/

Answer 1

Ok, I was able to solve this by using a variable that I then passed along to the httparty's get method.

i.e.

url = ["URL-UP-TO-/?query=CATEGORY:",category].join("")
get(url)

Hopefully this helps someone else looking to use httparty. The GEM is really impressive!