Passing headers and query params in HTTparty

Use Strings for your hash keys instead of Symbols.

query = { 
  "method"     => "neworder",
  "nonce"      => 1404996028,
  "order_type" => "buy",
  "quantity"   => 1,
  "rate"       => 1
}
headers = { 
  "key"  => "8781974720909019987",
  "sign" => "0a3888ac7f8e411ad73a0a503c55db70a291bfb9f9a47147d5200882674f717f6ede475669f3453" 
}

HTTParty.post(
  "https://www.acb.com/api/v2/market/LTC_BTC/", 
  :query => query,
  :headers => headers
)

It was probably only the headers that were causing a problem due to the error occurring in net/http/header.rb:172. The important info being undefined method 'split' for :key:Symbol (NoMethodError)

Symbol error in irb:

irb(main):002:0> "Something".split
=> ["Something"]

irb(main):003:0> :Something.split
NoMethodError: undefined method `split' for :Something:Symbol
        from (irb):3
        from /usr/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'