Well shit, it works

Gemfile

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ gem 'bootstrap3-datetimepicker-rails', '~> 4.17.37'
 # gem 'capistrano-rails', group: :development
 
 gem 'dotenv'
+gem 'httparty'
 
 group :development, :test do
   gem 'pry'

Gemfile.lock

@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ GEM
       rspec (>= 2.99.0, < 4.0)
     http-cookie (1.0.2)
       domain_name (~> 0.5)
+    httparty (0.13.7)
+      json (~> 1.8)
+      multi_xml (>= 0.5.2)
     i18n (0.7.0)
     jbuilder (2.4.0)
       activesupport (>= 3.0.0, < 5.1)
@@ -139,6 +142,7 @@ GEM
     momentjs-rails (2.11.0)
       railties (>= 3.1)
     multi_json (1.11.2)
+    multi_xml (0.5.5)
     nenv (0.2.0)
     netrc (0.11.0)
     nokogiri (1.6.7.2)
@@ -278,6 +282,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   dotenv
   factory_girl_rails
   guard-rspec
+  httparty
   jbuilder (~> 2.0)
   jquery-rails
   launchy

dirty_hacky_script.rb

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 require 'xmlsimple'
 require 'json'
+require 'httparty'
+require 'dotenv'
+Dotenv.load
 
-data = XmlSimple.xml_in File.read 'spec/support/fixtures/incoming.xml'
+data = XmlSimple.xml_in File.read ARGV[0]
 
 r = data['record']
 r.sort! { |x, y| x['datetime'] <=> y['datetime'] }
@@ -12,4 +15,20 @@
   end
 end
 
-puts r
+url = 'http://localhost:3000/api'
+
+r.each do |j|
+  HTTParty.post(
+    url,
+    body: {
+      data: j.to_json
+    }.to_json,
+    headers: {
+      'Content-Type' => 'application/json'
+    },
+    basic_auth: {
+      username: ENV['API_USER'],
+      password: ENV['API_PASSWORD']
+    }
+  )
+end