If you just need simple POST requests and fine control of the HTTP session,
I think the standard Net::HTTP library is all that's called for:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html
Make sure you're on v1.8.7 or higher, as there were performance issues in
1.8.6.

There is also Curb, Libcurl bindings for Ruby
  http://curb.rubyforge.org
Don't know if this is the one they didn't like.

If those fail to satisfy I think your obstreperous friend needs to give more
details on the use case and the issues he's having.

flip

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Calling all Ruby coders.
>
> I'm trying to help a fellow coder for a project. I wrote an
> integration piece that sites under OSCommerce which will basically
> perform action like authenticate user, create account, etc. This API
> is written is PHP and is callable from remote site. So from a remote
> site I can use PHP cURL to post the login form information and it
> returns some status information.
>
> Well the client contracted a different developer to write the remote
> pieces of the site. And it's written is Rails. I've tried explaining
> to the developer the cURL functionality and even provided my code
> examples. No luck. I've searched myself and found but he it not
> willing to install this since he pointed out some issues on his server
> when installing the gem.
>
> So reaching out to any Ruby developer that can provide cURL
> alternatives. I would think this is something native in the Ruby
> language. The important note here is the Ruby code needs to post
> variables into my PHP API code.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>

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