Ruby Net::HTTP::Get and JSON responses

I'm trying to connect to an API and retrieve the json results with my rails app, however it doesn't seem to work.

Take for example:

@request = Net::HTTP::Get.new "http://example.com/?search=thing&format=json"

When I try the url in my browser it works! and I get JSON data, however when I try that in Ruby the body is nil.

>> y @request
--- !ruby/object:Net::HTTP::Get 
body: 
body_stream: 
header: 
  accept: 
  - "*/*"
  user-agent: 
  - Ruby
method: GET
path: http://example.com/?search=thing&format=json
request_has_body: false
response_has_body: true

Any thoughts?

Ruby Net::HTTP::Get and JSON responses

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