Net::http and HTTParty work locally but not on Heroku - RoR3

Question

I am working on some RoR3 app and I have to make a HTTP request to some server.

I tried Ruby's Net::HTTP lib and is working locally but not on Heroku. I then tried HTTParty and get it to work locally but it still doesn't work on Heroku. I get

We're sorry, but something went wrong.

When I check the Heroku logs I get

500 Internal server error

showing as the last log.

I made sure the 'httparty' gem is mentioned in the right place in gemfile.

Is there any tutorial on how to make a HTTP request from Heroku PaaS?

Thanks

Answer 1

Amit Suroliya was correct. I was using HTTParty as well and it was working through Curl and Development but would crash in production. Because the HTTParty parameter is the literal URL(as a string), it has to be a flawless URL/URI (meaning no spaces). My bad URI was as follows:

HTTParty.get("http://api.blahblahblah.com/v1/Boards/Search?&limit=79&query=#{query}&filter_date_from=1423353600")

Notice the interpolation query=#{query}", So if query='Michelle Obama', notice space between Michelle and Obama. Because of interpolation, the HTTParty.get('string') it is incorrect.

SOLUTION:

Replace all whitespaces within your string with +, or you could use %20.

I used query.gsub!(' ', '+')

For more info on whitespace in the URL check it out here: Spaces in URLs?