I want to make a simple post request using ruby. At first I tried it with the gem open-uri. But this answer to a so- question says that it doesn't work. So instead of this I want to use the rest-open-uri gem as recommended in the post. But how does it work? and how does it work using a proxy?
Thanks in advance!
Couldn't you just use Ruby's stdlib? Here you have some nice examples for ruby 2.0.
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html#method-i-post
From the docs, a summary:
response = http.post('/cgi-bin/search.rb', 'query=foo')
Use case:
# using block
File.open('result.txt', 'w') {|f|
http.post('/cgi-bin/search.rb', 'query=foo') do |str|
f.write str
end
}
