Feature matrix of Ruby HTTP clients
I posted Ruby HTTP clients feature matrix. It covers 17 clients and 48 features. Let me know if you find any mistakes (it must include some!) and my misunderstandings.
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Hey, thanks for sharing you crazy work! This is super AWESOME! So, who’s the champion after all?
Disclaimer: I’m the author of httpclient gem, which is one of a clients in the list. :)
Summary in the presentation: http://j.mp/OdrkHTTPClient - net/http has various derivatives and alternatives because of old-style API and simple structure. - Few derivatives of net/http offers full-features of net/http. Too simple to extend? - Implemented features are vary from product to product. - APIs are vary, too. Making simple API tends to introduce disunity. - There’s no performance difference between products but it’s worth checking Keep-Alive and gzip compression support. - Eventmachine is considerably fast, if you can do non-blocking all your code. - Take care if you use C-ext libcurl variants. Some introduce interpreter blocking and JRuby/Rubinius incompatibility (at this moment).
And if you need SSL support, clients you can use are not much.
Sorry for not providing short answer…
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