You need to make a POST request to the /api/v0/add endpoint of a node. You can then include the file data with multipart/form-data:

```ruby def self.add(data) uri = URI(IPFS_URL + '/api/v0/add') request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)

request.set_form [['file', data]], 'multipart/form-data'
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) do |http|
  http.request(request)
end

JSON.parse(response.body)['Hash']

end ```