Preserving session with Mechanize
A write-up of a tricky aspect of saving Mechanize agent cookies.
Results of Ruby HTTP Client Library Survey
A few weeks back I asked what ruby HTTP client library folks preferred. I’ve since collected over 700 responses, which seems like a pretty decent sample. You can check out…
Poll: What’s your favorite Ruby HTTP client library?
We all know that Ruby’s built-in HTTP client library is a bit… wonky. As a result, there are a plethora of substitutes for it, each with unique features and boasting…
Debugging an HTTP Client Library
I’ve been trying to use Benoit Chesneau’s hackney library to hit the Wistia API from an Elixir program. Between the fact that hackney is still under rapid development, and the…
RubyTapas Freebie – Gem-Love Part 3
Sometimes on RubyTapas I serialize larger projects into bite-sized pieces. In this episode, you can see a slice of the outside-in TDD process I use as I develop part of…
HTTP forwarding services for local Facebook development
I’m working on Facebook Open Graph features for a client, and developing these features requires enabling Facebook to somehow crawl my locally-served pages. I asked around for solutions to this…
Linkdump #8
Scriptensity: Emscripten 1.0! This is the first I’ve heard of this project: it’s an LLVM-to-Javascript compiler. Which means you can (for instance) compile C++ to Javascript. I can’t decide if…
Linkdump #5
What would Feynman do? – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs One of the most entertaining software development articles I’ve read in a long time. tags:…
REST Resources
From time to time people ask me questions about RESTful architecture. I thought it might be helpful to list the resources that I keep near at hand for asnwering tricky…
A Rack-like library for HTTP Clients
Faraday is an HTTP client library inspired by Rack. Requests and Responses go through middleware which allow for abstraction and modular code. via Writing modular HTTP client code with Faraday…