Slack webhook in Rails

Question

I am opening a Rails console to try and use HTTParty to send a message to a slack channel using web hooks.

It all works when I use Postman but it doesnt work when I try HTTParty. In Postman I simply POST to the url with form-data with a key of payload and a value of:

{"channel" => "#some_channel", "username" => "webhookbot", "text" => "Testing message", "icon_emoji" => ":ghost:"}

In the rails console I am trying:

HTTParty.post(webhook_url, body: {"channel" => "#some_channel", "username" => "webhookbot", "text" => "Testing message", "icon_emoji" => ":ghost:"}, :headers => { 'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'})

I get this error message:

Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2) for "hooks.slack.com" port 443

Is this a proxy issue?

Answer 1

Try this:

HTTParty.post(webhook_url,
  body: {
    "channel" => "#some_channel",
    "username" => "webhookbot",
    "text" => "Testing message",
    "icon_emoji" => ":ghost:"
  }.to_json,
  headers: { 
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
  }
)