Equivalent of cURL for Ruby?

Question

Is there a cURL library for Ruby?

Answer 1

the eat gem is a "replacement" for OpenURI:

# first do gem install eat
require 'eat'
eat('http://yahoo.com')                 #=> String
eat('/home/seamus/foo.txt')             #=> String
eat('file:///home/seamus/foo.txt')      #=> String

It uses HTTPClient under the hood. It also has some options:

eat('http://yahoo.com', :timeout => 10)                   # timeout after 10 seconds
eat('http://yahoo.com', :limit => 1024)                   # only read the first 1024 chars
eat('https://yahoo.com', :openssl_verify_mode => 'none')  # don't bother verifying SSL certificate