Equivalent of cURL for Ruby?

Question

Is there a cURL library for Ruby?

Answer 1

If you like it less low-level, there is also Typhoeus, which is built on top of Curl::Multi.

Answer 2

Curb and Curl::Multi provide cURL bindings for Ruby.

Answer 3

There's also Mechanize, which is a very high-level web scraping client, and uses Nokogiri for HTML parsing.

Answer 4

If you know how to write your request as a curl command, there is an online tool that can turn it into ruby (2.0+) code: curl-to-ruby

Currently, it knows the following options: -d/--data, -H/--header, -I/--head, -u/--user, --url, and -X/--request. It is open to contributions.

Answer 5

Adding a more recent answer, HTTPClient is another Ruby library that uses libcurl, supports parallel threads and lots of the curl goodies. I use HTTPClient and Typhoeus for any non-trivial apps.

Answer 6

HTTP clients is a good page to help you make decisions about the various clients.