Ruby as a web client

rubyonrails-talk
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Hello,

I need to write a program that will talk http to some web applications. I was thinking to use Rack. I am not sure what would be a good way to do this. Is there a better or higher level gem that I can use for this.

Thanks in advance! Alex

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Hello,

I need to write a program that will talk http to some web applications. I was thinking to use Rack. I am not sure what would be a good way to do this. Is there a better or higher level gem that I can use for this.

Rack isn't what you want. Rack defines the interface between web server / server like things like passenger or mongrel and ruby web app frameworks like rails or sinatra. For your needs the lowest level you'd probably want is net/http, there are a variety of more high level/ fun thigns you can use such as httparty. If you control both ends of the conversation ActiveResource may also be worth looking at

Fred

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Alex wrote in post #954625:

Hello,

I need to write a program that will talk http to some web applications. I was thinking to use Rack. I am not sure what would be a good way to do this. Is there a better or higher level gem that I can use for this.

Thanks in advance! Alex

You could also peruse httparty (I think that's the name of a gem I used)...

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Thanks Everyone!

httparty seems to be the right gem.

Alex.