A simple REST client for Ruby, inspired by the Sinatra’s microframework style of specifying actions: get, put, post, delete.
require 'rest_client' RestClient.get 'http://example.com/resource' RestClient.get 'https://user:password@example.com/private/resource' RestClient.post 'http://example.com/resource', :param1 => 'one', :nested => { :param2 => 'two' } RestClient.delete 'http://example.com/resource'
See RestClient module docs for details.
resource = RestClient::Resource.new 'http://example.com/resource' resource.get private_resource = RestClient::Resource.new 'https://example.com/private/resource', :user => 'adam', :password => 'secret', :timeout => 20, :open_timeout => 5 private_resource.put File.read('pic.jpg'), :content_type => 'image/jpg'
See RestClient::Resource module docs for details.
site = RestClient::Resource.new('http://example.com') site['posts/1/comments'].post 'Good article.', :content_type => 'text/plain'
See RestClient::Resource docs for details.
The restclient shell command gives an IRB session with RestClient already loaded:
$ restclient >> RestClient.get 'http://example.com'
Specify a URL argument for get/post/put/delete on that resource:
$ restclient http://example.com >> put '/resource', 'data'
Add a user and password for authenticated resources:
$ restclient https://example.com user pass >> delete '/private/resource'
Create ~/.restclient for named sessions:
sinatra: url: http://localhost:4567 rack: url: http://localhost:9292 private_site: url: http://example.com username: user password: pass
Then invoke:
$ restclient private_site
Use as a one-off, curl-style:
$ restclient get http://example.com/resource > output_body $ restclient put http://example.com/resource < input_body
Write calls to a log filename (can also be “stdout” or “stderr”):
RestClient.log = '/tmp/restclient.log'
Or set an environment variable to avoid modifying the code:
$ RESTCLIENT_LOG=stdout path/to/my/program
Either produces logs like this:
RestClient.get "http://some/resource" # => 200 OK | text/html 250 bytes RestClient.put "http://some/resource", "payload" # => 401 Unauthorized | application/xml 340 bytes
Note that these logs are valid Ruby, so you can paste them into the restclient shell or a script to replay your sequence of rest calls.
All calls to RestClient, including Resources, will use the proxy specified by RestClient.proxy:
RestClient.proxy = "http://proxy.example.com/" RestClient.get "http://some/resource" # => response from some/resource as proxied through proxy.example.com
Often the proxy url is set in an environment variable, so you can do this to use whatever proxy the system is configured to use:
RestClient.proxy = ENV['http_proxy']
Request and Response objects know about HTTP cookies, and will automatically extract and set headers for them as needed:
response = RestClient.get 'http://example.com/action_which_sets_session_id' response.cookies # => {"_applicatioN_session_id" => "1234"} response2 = RestClient.post( 'http://localhost:3000/', {:param1 => "foo"}, {:cookies => {:session_id => "1234"}} ) # ...response body
Written by Adam Wiggins (adam at heroku dot com)
Patches contributed by: Chris Anderson, Greg Borenstein, Ardekantur, Pedro Belo, Rafael Souza, Rick Olson, Aman Gupta, Blake Mizerany, Brian Donovan, Ivan Makfinsky, Marc-André Cournoyer, Coda Hale, Tetsuo Watanabe, Dusty Doris, Lennon Day-Reynolds, James Edward Gray II, Cyril Rohr, and Juan Alvarez
Released under the MIT License: www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php