From: Tom Metge <tom@...>
Date: 2010-10-29T23:49:42+09:00
Subject: sinatra-inspired DSL for client-side HTTP

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we get a ton of these little posts, but i genuinely thought someone =
might find this useful (i certainly do):

http://github.com/tommetge/httprb

i've had to do more than my fair share of work with net/http and it =
sucks.  because most of us spend more time writing web apps/services =
than we do consuming them in ruby, we have beautiful DSLs like sinatra =
to help us.  it's about time we had the same for client work.

example:

  get 'www.google.com'
  # =3D> #<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=3Dtrue>

more complicated example (with custom headers and such):

  res =3D get 'www.google.com' do |req|
    req.header "x-some-key", "some value"
    req.header "x-some-other-key", "some other value"
  end
  # =3D> #<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=3Dtrue>

you get the idea.  feedback welcome.  really, i mean that.  lay in- i =
can take it :)

oh, one important note: unfortunately, this stomps all over sinatra =
(obviously) so they can't be used together- for now.

tom=

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