Equivalent of cURL for Ruby?

Question

Is there a cURL library for Ruby?

Answer 1

Curb-fu is a wrapper around Curb which in turn uses libcurl. What does Curb-fu offer over Curb? Just a lot of syntactic sugar - but that can be often what you need.

Answer 2

You might also have a look at Rest-Client

Answer 3

Here's a little program I wrote to get some files with.

base = "http://media.pragprog.com/titles/ruby3/code/samples/tutthreads_"

for i in 1..50

  url = "#{ base }#{ i }.rb"
  file = "tutthreads_#{i}.rb"

  File.open(file, 'w') do |f|   
    system "curl -o #{f.path} #{url}"
  end

end

I know it could be a little more eloquent but it serves it purpose. Check it out. I just cobbled it together today because I got tired of going to each URL to get the code for the book that was not included in the source download.

Answer 4

Use OpenURI and

  open("http://...", :http_basic_authentication=>[user, password])

accessing sites/pages/resources that require HTTP authentication.

Answer 5

the eat gem is a "replacement" for OpenURI:

# first do gem install eat
require 'eat'
eat('http://yahoo.com')                 #=> String
eat('/home/seamus/foo.txt')             #=> String
eat('file:///home/seamus/foo.txt')      #=> String

It uses HTTPClient under the hood. It also has some options:

eat('http://yahoo.com', :timeout => 10)                   # timeout after 10 seconds
eat('http://yahoo.com', :limit => 1024)                   # only read the first 1024 chars
eat('https://yahoo.com', :openssl_verify_mode => 'none')  # don't bother verifying SSL certificate

Answer 6

To state the maybe-too-obvious, tick marks execute shell code in Ruby as well. Provided your Ruby code is running in a shell that has curl:

puts `curl http://www.google.com?q=hello`

or

result = `
  curl -X POST https://www.myurl.com/users \
  -d "name=pat" \
  -d "age=21"
` 
puts result