title: Getting rails-api and strong_parameters to work together
body: <p>When including</p>
  
  <pre><code>gem 'strong_parameters'
  gem 'rails-api'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>together in my <code>Gemfile</code>, calling <code>params.require</code> like</p>
  
  <pre><code>private
    def user_params
      params.require(:user).permit(:first_name, :last_name)
    end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>fails with the following error on the <code>require()</code> call.</p>
  
  <pre><code>TypeError:
     can't convert Symbol into String
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The backtrace shows <code>strong_parameters</code>'  <code>ActionController::StrongParameters</code>' <code>require()</code> method is never hit.</p>