From: Anurag Priyam <anurag08priyam@...>
Date: 2011-01-07T21:43:36+09:00
Subject: Re: accessing api with ruby

>> I'm new to ruby and new to accessing api's over the web.  Below, I've
>> pasted a few examples of api calls.  Can someone direct me to a url
>> where I might learn about how to exercise an api with ruby?  Thanks.
>
> The stdlib includes an HTTP client library that you can use. See
> http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html
> For more libraries, see http://rubygems.org

And there is Rexml (stdlib), or Nokogiri (gem) for parsing the returned XML.

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