What is the proper “Rails Way” to consume a RESTful web service on another domain?

Question

I would like to write a Ruby on Rails application that consumes a RESTful web service API performs some logic on the result and then displays that data on my view. For exam

Answer 1

Restclient is a really nice solution to this problem.

require 'rest_client'
RestClient.get 'http://example.com/resource'
RestClient.get 'http://example.com/resource', {:params => {:id => 50, 'foo' => 'bar'}}

From the readme.