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Asked: 2026-06-14T07:31:09+00:00

n00b REST question. I’m making a GET request to an API’s endpoint and getting

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n00b REST question. I’m making a GET request to an API’s endpoint and getting the proper XML response. The question I have is, how do I get the value of a particular XML element in the servers REST response using Ruby?

So let’s say one of the elements is ‘Body’ and I want to assign its value ‘Blah blah blah’ to a variable

Part of the XML response:

<Body>Blah blah blah</Body>

How would I do that with the response? Basically I want to do something like this

variable = params["Body"]

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    The best solution is to use RestClient or HTTParty and have it parse the response for you.

    Otherwise, you’ll have to parse the response itself using a library such as Nokogiri:

    doc = Nokogiri.XML(response)
variable = doc.at("body").text
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