sample use of the monetbil api for charging customers upon booking

charging reservation.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'httparty'
require 'pp'
require 'json'

class ReservationsController < ApplicationController
  before_action :authenticate_user!
  before_action :set_reservation, only: [:approve, :decline]
  PAYMENT_URL = "https://api.monetbil.com/widget/v2.1/seriv-key-goes-here"
  
def charge(room, reservation)

      @notify_url = "some_url"
      @item_ref = "pass the hotel name here"
      body = {
        amount: "1000",
        notify_url: "enter notification url here"
      }.to_json
      headers = {"Content-Type" => "application/json" }
      response = HTTParty.post("#{PAYMENT_URL}", :headers => headers, body: body)
      
      puts response.code
      puts response.body
      #puts response.headers.inspect
      data = JSON.parse(response.body)
      @payment_url = data['payment_url']
      redirect_to @payment_url
      end
end