excon
Usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby (by excon)
HTTP
HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts (by httprb)
| excon | HTTP | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 6 | |
| 1,152 | 2,988 | |
| 0.0% | 0.2% | |
| 8.0 | 5.8 | |
| 10 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
excon
Posts with mentions or reviews of excon.
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
HTTP
Posts with mentions or reviews of HTTP.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
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Best Ruby HTTP Clients in 2023
Where's http.rb?
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Pattern Matching Interfaces in Ruby
I had submitted a PR against this repo, but I believe the two most interesting types to match against are responses and requests:
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My project: railstart app
http
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7 Ruby Standard libraries you should get to grips with
In the past I have opted to use the HTTP.rb gem, but for simple tasks it’s really useful to learn Net/http or even open-uri for simple GET requests.
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The Best Ruby HTTP clients for 2021
I actually like HTTP.rb's API more, but they still can't make a decision about "base URL" API, which is quite valuable for API wrappers, e.g. @client = HTTPLibrary.new('https://api.base.com/v2/') and then @client.get('/foo').
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Ruby on Rails + Auth0: Authenticating your API with an external authentication service
Everything will be created under the class Auth0, and it'll be using HTTP gem to perform the quests, but feel free to decide over your code organization and tools.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing excon and HTTP you can also consider the following projects:
Faraday - Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.
httparty - :tada: Makes http fun again!
Typhoeus - Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.
RESTClient - Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.
Unirest - Unirest in Ruby: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.
Http Client - 'httpclient' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby.
XSR - XSR - eXtremely Simple REST client
Savon - Heavy metal SOAP client