Upload audio file to rails server with paperclip with python requests HTTP client.

upload_audio.py

import requests
import base64
from datetime import datetime
import json

f = open('output.mp3')
recording = base64.b64encode(f.read())
current_time = datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

payload = {'audio_clip': {'device':'0005', 'time':current_time, 'recording':{'filename':'output.mp3', 'content_type':'audio/mp3', 'content':recording}}}
headers = {'content-type':'application/json'}
response = requests.post('http://localhost:7000/api/audio_clips', data=json.dumps(payload), headers=headers)
print response.text
print response