Serializing Simple JSON String with Rails ActiveResource

Question

I have a RESTful API call that acts like this:

HTTP GET http://addresss:port/settings/{setting}

which returns just the value of the setting specified as a simple string:

"settingValue"

I want to retrieve this value using a subclass of ActiveResource:Base

class Settings < ActiveResource:Base
  self.site = CONFIG['uri']
  self.collection_name = 'settings'
  self.format = :json
  ...
end

But when I call Settings.find("Setting"), I get unexpected token at '"settingValue"'.

I could change the format of the data returned from the API, but is there anyway to get Rails to correctly handle this data?

Answer 1

Your api doesn't render json so Active Resource fails when it tries to parse a mere text.

Use another means to communicate with apis like restclient