Patron: A Simpler Ruby HTTP Client for Ruby

Courtesy Ruby Inside  Fri, 07/17/2009 - 16:55

Phillip TolandUntil recently, I had been using the Curb library for making HTTP requests with Ruby, and I must say I was fairly happy with it. Phillip Toland , on the other hand, wasn't satisfied with Curb's API and the fact that it is tricky to modify (being implemented mainly in C).

So, he came up with an alternative called Patron , written as much as possible in Ruby.

Patron is based on libcurl ...


 

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