Easy Ruby http/curl API to program with

I've been using Ruby for quite some time now, however unlike PHP, as far as I know there is not a standard http/Curl (fetching, processing forms) like library that is easy and powerful like PHP's libCuRL binding.

While Net::HTTP is part of the Ruby standa开发者_StackOverflow中文版rd library, I always find that API hard to remember and program with.

Can anyone give suggestions on which http/curl library I should use over Net::HTTP?

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Take a look at HTTParty or REST Client.

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I would recommend using the Typhoeus gem. It's got a pretty clean API and allows you to make concurrent requests.

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I'll second Ryan's recommendation for Typhoeus, and recommend HTTPClient also. Both are very full featured and handle parallel requests easily.

For simple requests it's hard to beat Open-URI for its simplicity:

require 'open-uri'
html = open('http://www.example.com').read

If you're parsing a page it works great with Nokogiri:

require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://www.example.com'))

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I wrote a wrapper for the Net:HTTP lib recently, its very very simplistic. I wanted something with a simple API that was easy to use and remember, it's been working well for me:

https://github.com/ctcherry/plain_http