Escher helps you creating secure HTTP requests (for APIs) by signing HTTP(s) requests.

HTTP libraries and tools based on and complementary to Ruby BlackBag

Ruby FFI bindings to the http-parser library.

Kiota HttpCore implementation with Faraday

An Active-Resource replacement that supports camel-cased APIs and HTTP caching, and avoids race conditions when changing authentication information on the fly.

The approach is HTTP library agnostic, so you must supply method, uri, headers, and body

Unicorn HTTP server multiple application runner tool

mailchimp3 is a gem for working with MailChimp's RESTful JSON API documented at http://kb.mailchimp.com/api/ using HTTP basic auth or OAuth 2.0. This library can talk to any endpoint the API provides, since it is written to build endpoint URLs dynamically using method_missing.

The approach is HTTP library agnostic, so you must supply method, uri, headers, and body

Random HTTP User-Agent string generator

Rack::LocaleRootRedirect uses Rack:Accept to map '/' to a path based on the `Accept-Language` HTTP header.

HTTP Basic Authentication support for sunspot_rails

allows you to require "http://foo/bar.rb"

Easily grok and analyze your application metrics from a cluster, in real time, with this command line tool / gem. Compatible with HTTP JSON metrics routes as exposed by Coda Hale's metrics package, Jolokia, ruby- metrics, or any metrics package that exposes metrics via an HTTP route as JSON.

In few cases random HTTP User-Agent strings are required that are generated by this gem.

This supports https protocol, git protocol and ssh protocol.

BackgrounDRb is a Ruby job server and scheduler. Its main intent is to be used with Ruby on Rails applications for offloading long-running tasks. Since a Rails application blocks while serving a request it is best to move long-running tasks off into a background process that is divorced...

Easy to use extension of Net::HTTP to let you obey robots.txt while crawling/scrapping/mining

List of HTTP status codes with pattern matching.

GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, with something around. A HTTP client Ruby gem, with conditional GET, basic auth, and more.