REST with ruby?

Question

Are there good references teaching you how to send PUT/DELETE/POST/GET with ruby?

I have looked at Net::HTTP.

Is this library capable of all four methods? I couldn't find how to send with PUT.

Are there other good libraries for all these four methods?

Answer 1

You should definitely look at HTTParty. It's an easy to use library to deal with RESTful requests, JSON responses and so forth.

Answer 2

The simplest way would probably be to use the rest client gem. Then you can do stuff like

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

EDIT: changed url to a more up to date one.