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I'll happily accept documentation contributions! Next time you open the gem to figure something out, write some comments about it above the method and send it my way.

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I wrote up some basic documentation for HTTParty at http://gist.github.com/422500 which might be useful. Please feel free to format & add it to the Wiki here, or simply ignore it if it isn't up to snuff :)

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Wow, I thought HTTParty wasn't working correctly because :body wasn't automagically parsed for JSON/XML... sometime later I discovered parsed_response. +1 better docs

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@nathany Agh, the HTTParty::Response object should display the parsed_response by default. The fact that you had to use parsed_response tells me something went wrong. Can you please post a code snippet?

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Oh, perhaps it does work. I was using .body before, which is always the raw text? Sorry, misread the basic.rb example. This seems to be working:
result = {}
r = HTTParty.get(url, :query => payload)
r.each {|k,v| result[k.downcase.to_sym] = v}
result

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HTTParty::Response#body used to return the parsed response but in an attempt to make the response object act more like a regular NetHTTP response object, #body now returns the raw body. It looks like I should renamed parsed_response to parsed_body for consistency sake. Thanks for the input.

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I'm interested in helping with contributing documentation but I'm relatively new to the workflow used for GitHub. If I add some documentation, how should I present it / send it to you? (And by "you" I mean "the cool people behind this really neat gem" :) )

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