How can I make a PUT request to Trello API in rails project?

Question

The following code doesn't work as whished (ie. the card is not moving to the desired column id) due to an error.

require 'net/http'

    http = Net::HTTP.new('api.trello.com')
    response = http.send_request('PUT', '/1/cards/xxxxxxcardidherexxxxxx?key=xxxxxxkeyherexxxxxx&token=xxxxxxtokenherexxxxxx&idList=xxxxxxtargettedlistidherexxxxxx')

Error received:

=> #<Net::HTTPMovedPermanently 301 Moved Permanently readbody=true>

Any idea how I can make it work?

Answer 1

The 301 Moved Permanently status tells you that the resource has been moved to another URL. The URL can be found in the location header in the response. I made a request to the endpoint you provided and got this result:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< location: https://api.trello.com/1/actions/id?key=APIKey&token=APIToken
< date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 07:55:53 GMT
< server: envoy
< content-length: 0

Here you can see that that the host is not api.trello.com but https://api.trello.com.

So instead of using http = Net::HTTP.new('api.trello.com'), please use either Net::HTTP with extra steps for SSL connections or another request library that is not as low level as Net::HTTP, e.g HTTParty.