From: itsme213 <itsme213@...>
Date: 2006-01-05T00:47:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP.post_form method undefined?

Thanks Alex, that was it, I'm on 1.8.3.


"Alex Fenton" <alex@deleteme.pressure.to> wrote in message 
news:2KKdnYKLbIafBSbeRVnyig@pipex.net...
> itsme213 wrote:
>> I'm trying to do a POST using net/http.
>>
>> r = Net::HTTP.post_form(u,{'volumectrl'=>'-20'})
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> NoMethodError: undefined method `post_form' for Net::HTTP:Class
>>         from (irb):5
>
> What ruby version are you running? I ran into this same problem last week, 
> and it was because the standard stdlib documentation (on ruby-doc) refers 
> to ruby 1.9, where the post_form method exists. It doesn't exist in ruby 
> 1.8. Annoying huh?
>
> Try something like:
>
>      Net::HTTP.start('www.foo.com', 80) do | http |
>        response = http.post('/cgi-bin/foo.cgi', encoded_post)
>     end
>
> Note that you'll need to manually turn your hash into a URI-encoded 
> string. Look at URI.encode() in the stdlib.
>
> alex