Ruby HTTP clients

Ruby HTTP clients

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  Ruby HTTP clients FullStack Landscape
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  Report by HiroshiNakamura http://bit.ly/RubyHTTPClients2012 http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/03/04/whats-up-with-ruby-http-libraries/
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  Taxonomy by HiroshiNakamura http://bit.ly/RubyHTTPClients2012
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  My Taxonomy • gemsbased on TCPSocket (a Ruby C library):
 Net::HTTP (built-in Ruby) , HTTPClient • gems based on eventmachine (C++ library):
 EM-HTTP-Request, Excon • 3 groups of "wrapper gems": • HTTParty, HTTP.rb, Rest-Client use Net::HTTP as "backend" • Typhoeus, Curb, Patron use libcurl (a C library) • Faraday have adapter for: Net::HTTP (default), HTTPClient, EM-HTTP-Request, Excon, Typhoeus, Patron
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  Avdi's Survey http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/10/16/results-of-ruby-http-client-library-survey/
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  Avdi's Survey (Top10) • HTTParty "simplicity and ease of use" • Faraday "ability to modify its behavior with middlewares, swap backend libraries" • Net::HTTP "built-in, no extra dependency, robustness and stability" • Rest-Client “easy api, just works, can do file uploads” • HTTPClient “thread-safe, uses keepalive, fast, supports http streaming.” • Excon “easy to use, customize, easy to handle errors, has feature to debug” • HTTP.rb “thread safety (jRuby), a sane API for SSL (e.g. mutual auth)” • Typhoeus “concurrent requests and multipart posts actually work.” • Curb “benchmarks showed that curb is by far the fastest one.” • Patron “nicer API than Curb, easy to set timeout, easy to log and do REST actions.” http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/10/16/results-of-ruby-http-client-library-survey/
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  Popularity (Top 5) SurveyStars HTTParty 25.5% 3.569 Faraday 24.9% 3.027 Net::HTTP 12.7% - Rest-Client 10.9% 3.258 Typhoeus 6% 2.737 HTTPClient 5.2% 501 HTTP.rb 3.5% 1.206 Excon 3.3% 710 Curb 2.9% 945 Patron 0.9% 466
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  Samples for Top 5
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  HTTParty
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  Faraday
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  Faraday adapters Survey Stars HTTParty25.5% 3.569 Faraday 24.9% 3.027 Net::HTTP 12.7% - Rest-Client 10.9% 3.258 Typhoeus 6% 2.737 HTTPClient 5.2% 501 HTTP.rb 3.5% 1.206 Excon 3.3% 710 Curb 2.9% 945 Patron 0.9% 466 em-http-request - 1.064
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  Rest-Client a simple DSLfor accessing HTTP and REST resources
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  Typhoeus
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  Speed Test by@nahi
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  Speed Test by@nahi
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  Speed Test by@tarcieri https://github.com/httprb/http/blob/master/README.md
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  Net::HTTP implementation
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  The Simples HTTPGet require 'net/http'
 puts Net::HTTP.get('www.google.com', '/') "pure TCP socket" HTTP GET
 (without Net::HTTP)
 based on RFC 2616 https://gist.github.com/zmajstor/ 94b85c7821b129f71ad6 https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/ trunk/ext/socket/socket.c
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  TCPServer - TCPSocket https://gist.github.com/ zmajstor/ 94b85c7821b129f71ad6
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  The End