requests
Requests: HTTP for Humans
Description
Inspired by the Requests library for Python, this gem provides an easy way to issue HTTP requests.
Usage
Here's an example of a GET request:
require "requests"
response = Requests.request("GET", "http://example.com")
# Now you have these methods available
response.status #=> Number with the status code
response.headers #=> Hash with the response headers
response.body #=> String with the response bodyIf instead of calling Requests.request you prefer to specify the
HTTP method directly, you can use requests/sugar instead:
require "requests/sugar"
response = Requests.get("http://example.com")
# And again you get a response
response.status #=> Number with the status code
response.headers #=> Hash with the response headers
response.body #=> String with the response bodyYou can also pass parameters with a query string:
# GET http://example.com?foo=bar
Requests.get("http://example.com", params: { foo: "bar" })If you want to send data with a POST request, you can add a data
option with the value.
Requests.post("http://example.com", data: "hello world")For Basic Authentication, you can provide the option auth, which
should contain an array with the username and password:
Requests.get("http://example.com", auth: ["username", "password"])Installation
As usual, you can install it using rubygems.
$ gem install requests