Postcard Creation: cannot download file from URL / invalid byte sequence about lob-ruby HOT 5 CLOSED

what version of the gem are you using?

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It is 1.1 as installed by gem install lob a few days ago.

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2 problems so far:

1. it looks like the country needs to be US, not USA - I've submitted a PR to update the README
2. the API seems to be expecting both front and back, though only back should be required per the docs - I'll open a new issue to resolve that

I'm still looking into the "error downloading file" issue but here's a temporary fix that should work:

@lob.postcards.create(
  name: "John Joe",
  to: {
    name: "ToAddress",
    address_line1: "120, 6th Ave",
    city: "Boston",
    country: "US",
    state: "MA",
    zip: "12345"
  },
  front: "https://www.lob.com/postcardfront.pdf",
  back: "https://www.lob.com/postcardback.pdf",
  from: {
      name: "FromAddress",
      address_line1: "120, 6th Ave",
      city: "Boston",
      country: "US",
      state: "MA",
      zip: "12345"
    }
)

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Ok @iamwolf looks like the API is fixed so you can have just back - to fix your file upload issue use File.new instead of File.read (I'll submit a PR to update the README).

Here is what your request will look like

@lob.postcards.create(
  name: "John Joe",
  to: {
    name: "ToAddress",
    address_line1: "120, 6th Ave",
    city: "Boston",
    country: "US",
    state: "MA",
    zip: 12345
  },
  back: File.new('postcardback.pdf'), # this is the file downloaded from lob.com/postcardback.pdf
  from: {
    name: "FromAddress",
    address_line1: "120, 6th Ave",
    city: "Boston",
    country: "US",
    state: "MA",
    zip: 12345
  }
)

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@bsiddiqui Thank you very much! We are using the cURL variant through the system command in our application right now but will revert to the updated gem soon. Many thanks for all your time and figuring out a solution to this bug.

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