httsoiree

Like HTTParty, just a little less in your face.

gem install httsoiree

• Ruby 1.9.3 or higher
• multi_xml
• You like to converse with friends, perhaps over drinks.

A drop-in replacement to HTTParty - you can even keep typing HTTParty. Or, if you prefer, you can HTTSoiree.

# Use the class methods to get down to business quickly
response = HTTSoiree.get('https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?site=stackoverflow')

puts response.body, response.code, response.message, response.headers.inspect

# Or wrap things up in your own class
class StackExchange
  include HTTSoiree
  base_uri 'api.stackexchange.com'

  def initialize(service, page)
    @options = { query: {site: service, page: page} }
  end

  def questions
    self.class.get("/2.2/questions", @options)
  end

  def users
    self.class.get("/2.2/users", @options)
  end
end

stack_exchange = StackExchange.new("stackoverflow", 1)
puts stack_exchange.questions
puts stack_exchange.users

See the examples directory for even more goodies.

httsoiree also includes the executable httsoiree which can be used to query web services and examine the resulting output. By default it will output the response as a pretty-printed Ruby object (useful for grokking the structure of output). This can also be overridden to output formatted XML or JSON. Execute httsoiree --help for all the options. Below is an example of how easy it is.

httsoiree "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/questions?site=stackoverflow"

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/httparty-gem
• http://rdoc.info/projects/jnunemaker/httparty

Contribute to https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty. This fork will stay pegged to the latest version.