convention based approach to interfacing with an HTTP JSON API.

Just use Rack::HTTPCat in your application for all requests to have a link to the https://http.cat for their status under the HTTP-Cat header.

Throttle HTTP requests using a connection pool for all database connections

In case of nginx proxy, I wish to set SCRIPT_NAME to some value, but it sets HTTP_SCRIPT_NAME. So that, I'd like to adjust SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO accordantly

Little rack middleware to insert '<meta name="robots" content="noindex"></head>' into all HTTPS HTML responses for SEO reasons

I'm experimenting with creating Rack middleware gems. This lightweight gem servers as a replacement to Rack's CommonLogger statements. Improvements include colorized terminal output based on HTTP request method.

Protect a page's contents with HTTP Basic Authentication.

Allows for easy embedding of content from a remote HTTP server and exporting of the Rails HTML layout into another template.

Simple gem that makes it easy to handle HTTP OPTIONS requests in Rails.

The elegance of Rack with none of the unreliability of HTTP

Small but powerful client around oauth2 and http-rb to interact with APIs

A gem providing way to make HTTP clients stop caching responses.

A bare-bones Ruby HTTP server that talks Rack and uses a thread per connection model of concurrency.

A template resolver for rails 3.2. It retrieves templates via HTTP and stores them in a redis instance, as well as in local caches.

an easy way to deal with simple http request

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Very simple resque statistic.

Handles your HTTP requests in background in non-blocking way using Resque worker

HTTP conditional get support for ActiveResource

Ruby library built on top of httpclient for working with RESTful APIs.