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

This gem lets your rails app propagate http headers for distributed tracing with Istio.

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

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.

Replicate or record HTTP requests to your Rack application and replay them elsewhere or at another time.

HTTP Caching for Rack

Helpers for rack-test that mean I don't need to remember the accept header syntax, or whether to prepend HTTP to them.

Redispatch your response via another URL. Like a transparent, internal HTTP redirect.

A set of rest lib utilizing HTTParty that ease basic testing of Restful APIs

\Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering both the the request ...

Ruby gem to interact with Optivo HTTP API

Like a modern code version of the mythical beast with 100 serpent heads, Typhoeus runs HTTP requests in parallel while cleanly encapsulating handling logic.

Help building RESTful web services enabling HTTP OPTIONS verb on Ruby on Rails applications.

Peace of mind through automated monitoring of your HTTP services.

Implements a HTTP Rest interface to opentracker Bittorrent tracker

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

OnLooker is a simple rails plugin that lets a user check the status of his or her website or server. OnLooker uses Ping's to check via TCP or HTTP whether the site, sites or servers that you specify are online and accessible. OnLooker also supports custom images to distinguish status.

This gem sets the auth header and base uri needed for mailgun requests, the request is handled by HTTParty

Authentication with Remote-User HTTP header for Omniauth.

Okay, minimalist implementations of common utilities in Ruby. E.g., HTTP fetchers.