Question

I am communicating with API that requires DELETE request with JSON body. This works on console:


curl -XDELETE http://api.com/endpoint_path/rest_resource
-d '{"items":[{"type":"type1","item_id":"item1"}]}'


It seems that most gems for making HTTP requests don’t support DELETE request with body (I tried RestClient and Curb). Is there a way to do it using some Ruby gem (preferably Curb) or Net::HTTP?

Answer 1

Here’s one way using HTTParty:

HTTParty.delete("http://api.com/endpoint_path/rest_resource", { 
  :body => '{"items":[{"type":"type1","item_id":"item1"}]}'
})