I think what you're looking for is an HTTP client. You have plenty of options:
* curl binding for Ruby * Net::HTTP in the standard library * plenty of gems built on top of those You might take a look at http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/03/04/whats-up-with-ruby-http-libraries/ by Julia Evans. She lists a dozen of gems. -- Greg Navis I help small tech companies to scale Heroku-hosted Rails apps. Free, biweekly scalability newsletter for SaaS CEOs <http://www.gregnavis.com/newsletter/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAA6WWt_PYw_UGgu7NVNAADc0YZDPGrfPX5DiHev2c3DXzdFrSQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.