= httparty == DESCRIPTION: Makes http fun again! == FEATURES: * Easy get, post requests * Basic http authentication * Default request query string parameters (ie: for api keys that are needed on each request) * Automatic parsing of JSON and XML into ruby hashes based on response content-type == EXAMPLES: See http://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/tree/master/examples == COMMAND LINE INTERFACE httparty also includes the executable <tt>httparty</tt> which can be used to query web services and examine the resulting output. By default it will output the response as a pretty-printed Ruby object (useful for grokking the structure of output). This can also be overridden to output formatted XML or JSON. Execute <tt>httparty --help</tt> for all the options. Below is an example of how easy it is. httparty "http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json" == REQUIREMENTS: * Crack http://github.com/jnunemaker/crack/ - For XML and JSON parsing. * You like to party! == INSTALL: * sudo gem install httparty == DOCS: http://rdoc.info/projects/jnunemaker/httparty