Can ruby support send http request or call other programs written in like c or c# or Java?

rubyonrails-talk
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hello, everyone, I am developping a website using Ruby on Rails which need to go to another website to get some information to update my own database. Does ruby have similar function support like in c#:WebRequest.Create Request.GetResponse(); And how I call other programs in Rails?

Many thanks,

Lily

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Have you looked at Net:HTTP ?

Fred

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Ruby Net::HTTP class would support such requests http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Net/HTTP.html

there are some other classes/gems that are worth looking at: net/http net/https for secure connections openssl open-uri hpricot

especially hpricot is very handy if you have to process the returned html or xml