From: Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...>
Date: 2012-09-02T08:47:03+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Http 0.3.0: a simple way to talk to the web

The Http gem uses a simple, chainable syntax to build complex HTTP requests:

https://github.com/tarcieri/http

Want to make a request and obtain the response as a string?

    Http.get "http://www.google.com"

That's it! The result is the response body.

Making POST requests is simple too. Want to POST a form?

    Http.post "http://example.com/resource", :form => {:foo => "42"}

Want to POST with a specific body, JSON for instance?

    Http.post "http://example.com/resource", :body => JSON.dump(:foo => '42')

Or have it automatically serialize for you:

    Http.post "http://example.com/resource", :json => {:foo => '42'}

It's easy!

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Version 0.3.0 is practically a complete rewrite of the core internals.
Whereas previous versions were simply a wrapper for Net::HTTP, this
release is rewritten around the http_parser.rb library and provides
its own HTTP client logic.

Full changelog follows:

* New implementation based on tmm1's http_parser.rb instead of Net::HTTP
* Support for following redirects
* Support for request body through {:body => ...} option
* Http#with_response (through Chainable)

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Tony Arcieri