Include Gem Not Working

Question

I'm getting a weird error when I'm trying to include a gem within my controller, below is the code i'm using in the controller and the error I get is:

> undefined method `include' for <CatalogController:0x00000002427b90>

The code returning this error is as follows:

require 'httparty'
require 'json'

class CatalogController < ApplicationController

    # GET /feeds
    # GET /feeds.json
    def index
      # GRAB THE URL
      include HTTParty
      base_uri 'https://www.parsehub.com/api/v2/runs'

      # PARSE THE RESPONSE

      def art
        response = self.class.get("/tnZ4F47Do9a7QeDnI6_8EKea/data?&format=json")
        @elements = response.parsed_response["image"]
        @parsed = @elements.collect { |e| e['url'] }
      end


    end

end

Not too sure why this error is returning?

Answer 1

You don't need include. In fact, you shouldn't even need that require. I assume this is a rails app. If you have the httparty gem installed via your Gemfile , you can simply make calls with httparty throughout your application.

Also move that art method outside of your index method.