Open Source Ruby HTTP Clients

Faraday is an HTTP client library abstraction layer that provides a common interface over many adapters (such as Net::HTTP) and embraces the concept of Rack middleware when processing the request/response cycle. You probably don't want to use Faraday directly in your project, as it will lack an actual client library to perform requests. Instead, you probably want to have a look at Awesome Faraday for a list of available adapters. The best starting point is the Faraday Website, with its introduction and explanation. This library aims to support and is tested against the currently officially supported Ruby implementations. This means that, even without a major release, we could add or drop support for Ruby versions, following their EOL. Currently that means we support Ruby 2.6+. You can also install the faraday_middleware extension gem to access a collection of useful Faraday middleware.

HTTP checks & tests (private & public) monitoring - check the status of your URL. ciao checks HTTP(S) URL endpoints for a HTTP status code (or errors on the lower TCP stack) and sends a notification on status change via E-Mail or Webhooks. It uses Cron syntax to schedule the checks and comes along with a Web UI and a RESTful JSON API. Create an open-source web application for checking URL statuses with a UI and a REST API which is easy to install and maintain (no external dependencies like Databases, Caches, etc.) in public and private environments.

Log outgoing HTTP requests made from your application. Helps with debugging pesky API error responses, or just generally understanding what's going on under the hood. In theory, it should also work with any library built on top of these. But the difference between theory and practice is bigger in practice than in theory. This is very much a development and debugging tool; it is not recommended to use this in a production environment as it is monkey-patching the respective HTTP implementations. You have been warned - use at your own risk. Just like in Rails, you can filter the values of sensitive parameters by setting the filter_parameters to an array of (lower case) keys. The value for "password" is filtered by default. Please note that this will only filter the request data with well-formed parameters (in the URL, the headers, and the request data) but not the response. It does not currently filter JSON request data either, just standard "key=value" pairs in the request body.