Encoding.default_internal = 'UTF-8' require 'rubygems' require 'bundler/setup' require 'json' Bundler.require $config = IniFile.load('../.env') response = HTTParty.post "#{$config['global']['APP_URL']}/twitter/stream", { body: IO.read("tweet.json"), headers: {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'} } puts response