TwitterAuth is a Rails plugin gem that provides Single Sign-On capabilities for Rails applications via Twitter. Both OAuth and HTTP Basic are supported.

EventMachine based HTTP Request interface

Clean up your controller code by raising exceptions that generate responses with different HTTP status codes.

A Rack middleware IP filter that uses Http:BL to exclude suspicious robots.

A task library for submitting http requests using Tap.

Share files over HTTP wih a single command

gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby

TwitterAuth is a Rails plugin gem that provides Single Sign-On capabilities for Rails applications via Twitter. Both OAuth and HTTP Basic are supported.

Daemon which executes shell commands read out of a Starling queue and optionally posts back to an HTTP server on success/failure

Provides wrapper functionality and authentication for REST and RPC HTTP requests to OpenSocial-compliant endpoints, along with validation of incoming signed makeRequest calls.

Makes http fun! Also, makes consuming restful web services dead easy.

An HTTP mini server to query against modular adaptors

local-openid allows users with shell accounts on servers to authenticate with OpenID consumers by editing a YAML file in their home directory instead of authenticating through HTTP/HTTPS.

Test Apache behavior using Test::Unit, based on a gist by Patrick Reagan of Viget Labs

A subclass of Test::Unit::TestCase to allow for http redirect testing, packaged from a gist by Patrick Reagan of Viget Labs

http_request.rb is a small, lightweight, powerful HttpRequest class based on the 'net/http' and 'net/ftp' libraries

Support utilities for ruby apps on Google App engine. Wraps GAE specific functionality, and modifies ruby standard libraries where needed (i.e Net:HTTP) to use GAE libraries

Support utilities for ruby apps on Google App engine. Wraps GAE specific functionality, and modifies ruby standard libraries where needed (i.e Net:HTTP) to use GAE libraries

a very simple http server for use in automated integration tests

Simple HTTP/REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions. Forked from RestClient http://rest-client.heroku.com see README for reasons