Run rails post in console for debug or restoring data

27 May 2014

Today I learn a trick to mimic a webhook in console.

Before when I want to test out why the webhook send to OA is not working I have to actually trigger the webhook in other app, like KB. Moreover, it is sometimes hard to make the params identical with the original request.

We can solve this by using the console and the app object:

rails c
  Loading development environment (Rails 4.1.1)
  [1] pry(main)> params = { something: "somewhere" }
  [2] pry(main)> url = '/some/path'
  [3] pry(main)> app.post(url, params)

First I dig through the production log to get the params of the webhook. Then I issue app.post and that’s it! The app get a identical webhook as the log show. No more clicking UI!