Ruby¶

The examples in this section use rest-client, a REST client for Ruby. There is also a GeoServer-specific REST client in Ruby: RGeoServer.

Once installed on a system, rest-client can be included in a Ruby script by adding require 'rest-client'.

GET and PUT Settings¶

This example shows how to read the settings using GET, make a change and then use PUT to write the change to the server.

require 'json'
require 'rest-client'

url = 'http://admin:geoserver@localhost:8080/geoserver/rest/'

# get the settings and parse the JSON into a Hash
json_text = RestClient.get(url + 'settings.json')
settings = JSON.parse(json_text)

# settings can be found with the appropriate keys
global_settings = settings["global"]
jai_settings = global_settings["jai"]

# change a value
jai_settings["allowInterpolation"] = true

# put changes back to the server
RestClient.put(url + 'settings, settings.to_json, :content_type => :json)