Read the request body. This is useful for web services that need to work with raw requests directly.

Source Code

# File action_controller/request.rb, line 279
def raw_post
  unless env.include? 'RAW_POST_DATA'
    env['RAW_POST_DATA'] = body.read(content_length)
    body.rewind if body.respond_to?(:rewind)
  end
  env['RAW_POST_DATA']
end