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Tony Arcieri edited this page Feb 14, 2016 · 15 revisions

Require the gem in your project:

require 'http'

And make a GET request:

>> response = HTTP.get('https://www.google.com')
=> #<HTTP/1.0 200 OK @headers={"Content-Type"=>"text/html; charset=UTF-8", "Date"=>"Fri, ...>

We now have a HTTP::Response object for the given request. We can obtain the body by calling #to_s on it:

>> response.to_s
=> "<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=..."

Or get the response status code by calling #code:

>> response.code
=> 200

Many other HTTP methods are available as well:

>> response = HTTP.post('https://restapi.com/objects')
>> response = HTTP.put('https://restapi.com/put')
>> response = HTTP.patch('https://restapi.com/put')
>> response = HTTP.delete('https://restapi.com/put')
>> response = HTTP.head('https://restapi.com/put')

See the METHODS constant in requests.rb for the full list of supported HTTP methods:

https://github.com/httprb/http/blob/master/lib/http/request.rb

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