For a programmer who thinks net/https of ruby standard library sucks.

A websocket client built on top of Net::HTTP.

network-client is a drop-in thin layer on top of Net::HTTP classes for JSON web requests with retry functionality and simple error handling

Ruby client containing a task worker interface, worker coordinator, and HTTP client for Netflix's Conductor API

ruby-xbmc is a ruby wrapper for the XBMC Web Server HTTP API. It provides a remote access to any XBMC running on the local network, in a simple way (methods follow the ones from XBMC API).

A ruby client for publishing messages to your http pub/sub service provided by the nginx-push-stream-module

Ruby wrapper around the New Relic HTTP API. Makes it very easy to post component and metric data to the API.

mais-access provides a simple yet secure HTTP(S) authentication barrier for applications developed within the MAIS system. After initial connection, sessions for authenticated clients are validated by JSON Web Tokens for reduced overhead and improved security.

For basic web services that don't want just anyone to have access. Generates signature hashes for http requests.

A gateway to send SMS using HTTP, through NRSGateway, written in ruby

Generate, parse and verify header information for oauth v2 http mac authentication.

Generate and verify signatures for oauth v2 http mac authentication

%q{Just a simple Ruby library to provides Ruby-style abstraction around the HTTP API at Pachube.}

p2p - build your own peer-to-peer (p2p) networks; run your own peer-to-peer (p2p) nodes over HTTP

Get HTTP PageWeight in Ruby

SSLHelper provides controller helpers to require/refuse SSL onto specific actions, test helpers to verify controller behaviours and named route counterparts (e.g. ssl_login_url) to clean up your view and controller code. HTTP(S) ports are configurable.

ParseUserAgent is a library for parsing HTTP User Agent strings. It provides access to the browser name, broswer version (major and minor), operating system name, and operating system version (major and minor).

party_resource is a framework for building ruby objects which interact with a REST api. Built on top of HTTParty.

Easily route HTTP requests to different backends by pattern matching the URL path.

Ruby client for Payments HTTP API