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Ruby Build a Rails API Coding the API Creating To-Do Items

Posted by Sebastian Velandia
Sebastian Velandia
24,676 Points

why the syntax inside -d is different when creating and updating?

Ok I just need to understand something when you make the create with POST you whrite data inside -d option like this

curl -i -H "Accept:application/json" -H "Content-type:application/json" -X POST -d '{"title":"this is the title when creating"}' http://localhost:3000/api/todo_lists

but when you make the update action through PUT then you change the way you write data inside the -d option

curl -i -H "Accept:application/json" -H "Content-type:application/json" -X PUT -d '{\"title\":\"New title for this todo list\"}' http://localhost:3000/api/todo_lists/4.json

and I thought that it can be written in both ways, but I tried combinating the way of write the data and for example 

-d '{\"title\":\"New title for this todo list\"}'

Did not work with the Create action. Could someone explain to me?