Not able to send query parameters Mechanize Ruby

Question

I am trying to send these parameters as string

abc = authenticity_token=lXewdcVQRHZb+O9gVZ+E0xG9Mtg2rnTznkEN/wVk2a4=&design[design_code]=xyz&&design[price]=600&design[discount_percent]=10&design[category_ids]=148&design[property_value_ids]=250&design[property_value_ids]=285&design[property_value_ids]=499&design[image_ids]=208133&

post_design_url = 'some url'

agent = Mechanize.new

agent.user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_2; ru-ru) AppleWebKit/533.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10"

agent.post(post_design_url, abc)

When i checking out request at my rails server i am getting

Parameters: {}

I am trying to send arrays in this post request. category_ids and property_value_ids

@MichaelSzyndel i needed global variables in my script. Just ignore them — chirag7jain, May 15 '14 at 07:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 15 '14 at 07:54

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I don't use Mechanize, but I think you should add your parameters like this:

agent.post(post_design_url, {
    "authenticity_token" => "lXewdcVQRHZb+O9gVZ+E0xG9Mtg2rnTznkEN/wVk2a4=",
    "design[design_code]" => "xyz",
    "design[price]" => "600"
})

answered May 15 '14 at 07:54

Sir l33tname

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This method doesn't work for me. I need to send to arrays and mechanize currently doesn't support sending arrays via this structure – chirag7jain May 15 '14 at 08:05
In this case please add the important parts of your backend code to your question. – Sir l33tname May 15 '14 at 08:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '14 at 08:07

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I addition to @Sir l33tname answer you can use following format

agent.post(post_design_url, {
  :param1 => 'one', 
  :nested => {:param2 => 'two'},
})

answered May 15 '14 at 08:07

user2622247

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have you tried it out. how do i use it. Assuming i have an array named category_ids – chirag7jain May 15 '14 at 08:22

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '14 at 07:34

I believe the issue you are having is right at the beginning of your query parameters.

I believe you should add quotes around the string, and escape your auth token:

require 'cgi'

abc = "authenticity_token=#{CGI::escape('lXewdcVQRHZb+O9gVZ+E0xG9Mtg2rnTznkEN/wVk2a4=')}&design[design_code]=xyz&&design[price]=600&design[discount_percent]=10&design[category_ids]=148&design[property_value_ids]=250&design[property_value_ids]=285&design[property_value_ids]=499&design[image_ids]=208133&"

I'm pretty sure before, if the quotes around your full string weren't getting you, the = at the end of your authenticity_token probably was.

Not able to send query parameters Mechanize Ruby

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