cant get curl command to work

Question

Running the command:

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"title":"The Title Goes Here"}' http://localhost:3000/api/todo_lists

results in the following response:

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error 
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Type: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache
X-Request-Id: 4886e13a-d7db-437f-a40c-3db78e038e81
X-Runtime: 0.018863
Server: WEBrick/1.3.1 (Ruby/2.2.1/2015-02-26)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 07:48:16 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: Keep-Alive
Set-Cookie: request_method=POST; path=/

I've researched and tried a few different things:

skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token

skip_before_action :verify_authenticity_token

and 

protect_from_forgery :except => [:create]

all in the api TodoListsController and the ApplicationBase. I even tried making an api specific application base that shuts protect from forgery off completely.

Code for the full TodoListsController is:

class Api::TodoListsController < ApplicationController
  skip_before_filter :verify_authenticity_token
  def index
    render json: TodoList.all
  end

  def show
    list = TodoList.find(params[:id])
    render json: list
  end

  def create
    list = TodoList.new(list_params)

    if list.save
      head 200
    else
      head 500
    end
  end

  private
  def list_params
    params.require("todo_list").permit("title")
  end
end

my IDE (RubyMine) shows me this error when hovering over ':verify_authenticity_token'

"Expected method name from current or parent classes up to 'ActionController::Base', but found ':verify_authenticity_token'. or hash expected"

Which I guess is fine, the server output shows me this:

Started POST "/api/todo_lists" for 127.0.0.1 at 2015-04-19 00:57:26 -0700
Processing by Api::TodoListsController#create as JSON
  Parameters: {"title"=>"The title goes here!", "todo_list"=>{"title"=>"The title goes here!"}}
   (0.0ms)  begin transaction
   (0.0ms)  rollback transaction
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 3ms (ActiveRecord: 0.5ms)

[UPDATE] I edited my create method to be like this:

 def create
    todo_list = TodoList.new(list_params)


      if todo_list.save
        render  json: :show
      else
        render json: todo_list.errors
      end
  end

and it reveals, being that we're working with odot, that description is required and can't be nil. So adding that in the list_params private method, and submitting it with my post gave me what I was expecting.

Answer 1 · 2015-04-19T09:11:28Z

April 19, 2015 9:11am

I edited my create method to be like this:

 def create
    todo_list = TodoList.new(list_params)


      if todo_list.save
        render  json: :show
      else
        render json: todo_list.errors
      end
  end

and it reveals, being that we're working with odot, that description is required and can't be nil. So adding that in the list_params private method, and submitting it with my post gave me what I was expecting.

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