I am using ActiveResource to manage accessing an external service.
The external service has an URL like:
http://api.cars.com/v1/cars/car_id/range/range_num?filter=filter1,filter2
Here's my Car class:
class Car < ActiveResource::Base
class << self
def element_path(id, prefix_options = {}, query_options = nil)
prefix_options, query_options = split_options(prefix_options) if query_options.nil?
"#{prefix(prefix_options)}#{collection_name}/#{URI.parser.escape id.to_s}#{query_string(query_options)}"
end
def collection_path(prefix_options = {}, query_options = nil)
prefix_options, query_options = split_options(prefix_options) if query_options.nil?
"#{prefix(prefix_options)}#{collection_name}#{query_string(query_options)}"
end end
self.site = "http://api.cars.com/"
self.prefix = "/v1/"
self.format = :json
end
When I set up my object to get a particular car in rails console:
> car = car.new
> car.get('1234')
I get a URL like this:
http://api.cars.com/v1/cars//1234.json
How do I get the URL to include the range and range_num elements?
Also, i don't want the .json extension on the end of the URL. I've attempted overriding the element_name and collection_name methods as described here: How to remove .xml and .json from url when using active resource but it doesn't seem to be working for me...
Thanks in advance for any ideas!
