ZD's random thoughts » curb http://zdinfo.com technology, life, and more Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:56:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 HTTP Post to a remote server in Ruby http://zdinfo.com/2009/02/06/http-post-to-a-remote-server-in-ruby/ http://zdinfo.com/2009/02/06/http-post-to-a-remote-server-in-ruby/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:36:56 +0000 zd http://zdinfo.com/?p=25 To every ruby developer’s surprise, the built-in Net::HTTP does not support Multipart natively. There are a couple of solutions: write multipart function by yourself, use a third part plugin such as curb or RestClient.

Be aware though. Curb can easily crash your rails if the parameter is not a String. For example, if you have an integer stored in the session, and you pass that to curb directly, then your ruby server will crash. It took me a couple of hours to figure that out…

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