Can't access IBM Watson API locally due to CORS in Rails / AJAX application

There don't seem to be many answers (but many questions) on how to deal with this, so I'm going to add my name to the chorus and pray for an answer that Node.

My error via Chrome console:

1. POST https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/visual-recognition-beta/api 
2. XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/visual-recognition-beta/api. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:3000' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 401.

      

        
        
        
      

    

I am using Rails AJAX request as such:

$.ajax({
         method: "POST",
         version: 'v2-beta',
         url: "https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/visual-recognition-beta/api",
         password: "-----------",
         username: "-----------",
         version_date:'2015-12-02',
         visual_recognition: [
             {
             name: "visual-recognition-service",
             label: "visual_recognition",
             plan: "free",
             credentials: {
                 url: "https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/visual-recognition-beta/api",
                 password: "----------",
                 username: "---------"
               }
             }
           ],
         image: "/images/image1.jpg",
         contentType: 'application/json'
         }).done(function(msg){
         if (200) {
           console.log("This is a test for if.")
         } else {
           console.log("This is a test for else.")
         }
       });

      

        
        
        
      

    

For this particular prototype application, I have Rack :: Cors built to make something work. This is in my .rb app:

config.middleware.insert_before 0, "Rack::Cors" do
      allow do
        origins '*'
        resource '*',
        :headers => :any,
        :methods => [:get, :post, :delete, :put, :patch, :options, :head],
        :expose  => ['access-token', 'expiry', 'token-type', 'uid', 'client', 'auth-token'],
        :max_age => 0
      end
end

      

        
        
        
      

    

Is there anyone who knows how to configure this to get around this? I have to assume that there is access to these APIs without having to start an instance of Node.