requests.rb

def self.put_json_to_url input_url, json_body
  safely_request{RestClient.put(input_url, json_body, :content_type => 'application/json')}
end


def safely_request(&block)
  
  begin
    @response = parse_response(block.call)
  rescue Exception => e
    raise e.response
  end

  parse_response(@response)

end

Just updated. It strikes me that it could be refactored to be even shorter using eval(), but let's leave it at this for now.