From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T05:29:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby equivalent of filepart

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:58:37AM +0900, Siddharth Dawara wrote:
> I'm looking for a Ruby equivalent of Java's Jakarta HTTP FilePart.
> 
> I basically need to send out a post request that contains an uploaded
> file to a REST API.
> 
> Now the client code that they normally use is Jakarta HTTP. Whose
> definition of a multipart post containing a file is here:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/methods/multipartpost.html
> 
> I need help to do this in Ruby. Anyone has nay thoughts on this?

If you google for "ruby multipart post" you'll find some solutions.

I believe also that Rails has some components which can do this.