Ruby Multi-part Form Upload with RestClient

Question

I'm working on a ruby application, and am trying to upload a file to box.net. I have it working with the curl call

curl https://www.box.com/api/2.0/files/data -H "Authorization: BoxAuth api_key=<API_KEY>&auth_token=<AUTH_TOKEN>" -F folder_id=0 -F [email protected] --trace ~/Desktop/log.txt

I've tried to translate this into ruby, and have tried the following

request = RestClient::Request.new(:method => :post,:url => "https://www.box.com/api/2.0/files/data",:authorization => "BoxAuth api_key=<API_KEY>&auth_token=<AUTH_TOKEN>",:filename => "test.txt", :payload => { :multipart => true, :file => File.new("test.txt"))
request.execute

but I keep getting back a "401: Unauthorized" response. I've also tried using the box-api gem, but that seems to only work with version 1.0 of the API, and I'm trying to interface with 2.0.

Answer 1

Try to use :headers => {:authorization => "BoxAuth api_key=<API_KEY>&auth_token=<AUTH_TOKEN>"} in the call. That should fix the missing authorization header.

Complete request would then be:

request = RestClient::Request.new(:method => :post,:url => "https://www.box.com/api/2.0/files/data",:headers => {:authorization => "BoxAuth api_key=<API_KEY>&auth_token=<AUTH_TOKEN>"},:filename => "test.txt", :payload => { :multipart => true, :file => File.new("test.txt")})