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In the greek mythology Ethon is a gigantic eagle the son of Typhoeus and Echidna. So much for the history. In the modern world Ethon is a very basic libcurl wrapper using ffi.

Installation

With bundler:

gem "ethon"

With rubygems:

gem install ethon

Usage

Making the first request is realy simple:

easy = Ethon::Easy.new(url: "www.example.com")
easy.perform
#=> :ok

You have access to various options like following redirects:

easy = Ethon::Easy.new(url: "www.example.com", followlocation: true)
easy.perform
#=> :ok

Once you're done you can look at the response code and body:

easy = Ethon::Easy.new(url: "www.example.com", followlocation: true)
easy.perform
easy.response_code
#=> 200
easy.response_body
#=> "<!doctype html><html ..."

Http

In order to make life easier there are some helpers for doing http requests:

easy = Ethon::Easy.new
easy.http_request("www.example.com", :get, { params: {a: 1} })
easy.perform
#=> :ok
easy = Ethon::Easy.new
easy.http_request("www.example.com", :post, { params: { a: 1 }, body: { b: 2 } })
easy.perform
#=> :ok

This really handy when doing requests since you don't have to care about setting everything up correct.

LICENSE

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2012 Hans Hasselberg

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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