Question

I’m a beginner Rails programmer and even though this question might be too easy, I love to know if it’s possible and if it is how can I accomplish that?

My question inside the index how can I make a get request to a link and assign it’s JSON response to an object that I will be later using on. The syntax(not correct) I had in my mind was something like;

people=Make_A_Get_Request("http://people.com") //It will return in JSON
@peopleName=people['name']

I know that it’s not true but is there like any method I can apply in Rails like the one above to make a get request to a link and assign its JSON response to an object in my rails function

Answer 1

Try something like below

def index
  uri = URI('http://people.com/path/to/request')
  response = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
  data = JSON.parse(response.body)
  #then you can play like data["name"]
  rescue Exception => e
   logger.info "Unable to do something due to #{e.message}"
end