HTTParty not setting configuration parameters

Question

I'm using the HTTParty gem to post a request on another website of mine. In my dedicated class I define some defaults according to HTTParty's documentation:

require 'httparty'

class Notifier

  include HTTParty
  base_uri "my_awesome_site.com"
  basic_auth "an_awesome_client", "megasecretkey"

  ...

end

Then within such class I have my notify method posting the actual request:

def notify
  ...
  result = HTTParty.post( '/receiver.json', 
                         :query => some_message_of_mine_as_a_hash)
  ...
end

Everything seems to be set up correctly, yet the connection fails. Debugging the method I find out that at the moment of the request HTTParty's default_options Hash is empty. What's going on?

Answer 1

You have included the HTTParty module in your Notifier class. This makes the methods defined within that module available on your class. When you call base_uri and base_auth, you're setting configuration on Notifier, not within HTTParty itself.

In your notify method you should be calling post directly instead of against HTTParty

result = post( '/receiver.json', 
               :query => some_message_of_mine_as_a_hash )

See the very last line of this example. Notice, the call from outside the class is on Partay.post, not Partay.HTTParty.post.