From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2010-11-30T05:51:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:33470] Recommending gems in ruby's RDoc

Is it allowed to reference third-party gems in Ruby's documentation?

In particular I think it would be useful to reference net-http-persistent and multipart-post in Net::HTTP's documentation.

net-http-persistent manages persistent connections including reconnecting and retrying when the server closes the connection.  Disclaimer:  This is my software.

http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/net-http-persistent/

multipart-post adds multipart/form-data support to Net::HTTP.  I do not particularly like the API (I would prefer a method like set_form_data over separate classes) but it will save the users from having to perform an extra google search.

https://github.com/nicksieger/multipart-post

PS: I think Net::HTTP should support multipart/form-data out of the box.  I'm a bit busy right now, though.