# Discourse Add Group API
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-add-group-api/25571
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [February 23, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-add-group-api/25571 "2015-02-23T15:28:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@dansingerman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dansingerman)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-add-group-api/25571/1 "2015-02-23T15:28:29Z")
I am using the discourse\_api gem, and adding a group fails as follows:
```
client = DiscourseApi::Client.new
client.create_group(name: "some_group")
DiscourseApi::Error: {"errors"=>["Name must be at least 3 characters"]}
```
This is because of a mismatch between what the gem posts, and what the API expects.
The gem posts
```
{
"group": {
"name": "some_group",
"visible": "true"
}
}
```
But the controller method does not expect the root ‘group’ key:
```
group = Group.new
group.name = (params[:name] || '').strip
```
The discourse api documentation does not seem to mention groups: [Discourse REST API Documentation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation/22706)
I am happy to fix this bug, but wanted to ask what we think the correct API design here is - should we fix it by removing the root element from the packet posted by the gem, or should the controller method be changed to deal with the root element?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-add-group-api/25571/2 "2015-02-23T15:48:47Z")
> [@dansingerman](#):
>
> should we fix it by removing the root element from the packet posted by the gem
Yes, please 😍 .
I changed the API recently but didn’t update the gem 😳
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### Author:  [@dansingerman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dansingerman)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2015, 11:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-add-group-api/25571/3 "2015-02-25T11:33:27Z")
Here is the PR 😄
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse\_api/pull/68](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api/pull/68)
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2015, 11:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-add-group-api/25571/4 "2015-02-25T11:46:33Z")