Attempting to use invalid JSON in Ruby

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I'm trying to make a test to verify that invalid json in a curl returns a 400 error code. Unfortunately, Ruby won't allow me to use invalid JSON.

if bad_json
  credentials = {
    "username" => username
    "password" => password
  }.to_json
else
  credentials = {
    "username" => username,
    "password" => password
  }.to_json
end

produces the following when I try to run the test:

/foo.rb:60: syntax error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG, expecting '}'
            "password" => password
             ^
/foo.rb:60: syntax error, unexpected =>, expecting keyword_end
            "password" => password
                         ^ (SyntaxError)

Is it possible to pass this invalid JSON in without the script breaking?

asked 1 min ago

Dan Saint-Pierre

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