Flexirest
Flexirest - The really flexible REST API client for Ruby (by flexirest)
Typhoeus
Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests. (by typhoeus)
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| Flexirest | Typhoeus | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 313 | 4,057 | |
| 4.2% | 0.0% | |
| 6.7 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | 5 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
Flexirest
Posts with mentions or reviews of Flexirest.
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
Shame https://github.com/flexirest/flexirest wasn’t included 😢
Typhoeus
Posts with mentions or reviews of Typhoeus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
-
Best Ruby HTTP Clients in 2023
In fact, because the metric is clearly "number of stars", it suggests you two libraries which are either not maintained in almost 3 years, or that haven't had a release in 3 years and a commit in 10 months, despite both of them having a buttload of open issues.
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The Best Ruby HTTP clients for 2021
Have you had a play with typhoeus by any chance? It's a wrapper over libcurl, so you get OS threads for free - which is kind of nice.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Flexirest and Typhoeus you can also consider the following projects:
httparty - :tada: Makes http fun again!
Faraday - Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.
Http Client - 'httpclient' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby.
Sawyer - Secret User Agent of HTTP
RESTClient - Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.
XSR - XSR - eXtremely Simple REST client
excon - Usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby
Unirest - Unirest in Ruby: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.
Patron - Ruby HTTP client based on libcurl
HTTP - HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts