HAPI

HAPI provides a generic abstraction layer for dealing with simple HTTP APIs that return XML content.

Installing

gem install hapi

Making an API call is a simple matter.

Create the HAPI::APICall object
Set the parameters you want to send
Fire the post() or get() methods

require 'hapi' h = HAPI::APICall.new "https://path.to/my/api" h.params = => 'rodjek, 'foo' => 'bar' response = h.post

The XML content result is parsed by xml-object and returned at a Ruby object for simplicity.

i.e.

<response>
    <result>
        <command>foo</command>
        <code>0</code>
    </result>
</response>

Can be accessed as follows

response.result.command
=> "foo"
response.result.code
=> "0"