Short Screencasts of Gourmet Ruby, by Avdi Grimm
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the application protocol upon which the World Wide Web is built. HTTPS adds security to HTTP using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt the underlying HTTP protocol. The Ruby standard library includes both Net::HTTP and Net::HTTPS.
There is a list of popular alternative HTTP client libraries in the Virtuous Code Ruby HTTP Client Library Survey.
In which we say hello to a promising alternative to Ruby's standard Net::HTTP library.
Today we examine a technique for working with paged data from web services.
Today's episode tackles the problem of talking to a web app which has no published API, using the Mechanize screen-scraping gem. In the process, we'll explore the Gateway pattern for …
Web services are slow to request and often have rate caps. A cache can cut down on requests to remote APIs. But how best to design the interface between the …
