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httpclient: A Ruby HTTP client for serious business

While debugging an intricate issue with failed HTTP requests I have come to appreciate the more advanced features of the httpclient Rubygem.

The gem is much more than a lightweight wrapper around Ruby's `net/...

In case Ruby does not detected the expected encoding of a file automatically you can specify the known encoding manually.

file = File.open('some.bin', encoding: Encoding::ASCII_8BIT)
text = file.read
text.encoding =>...

Sometimes you want to use a vanilla Ruby method like a block. You can use Object#method to obtain a method reference that responds to #call:

foo_plus = "foo".method(:+)
foo_plus.call("bar") # =...

Since Ruby 2.1, defining a method returns its name as a Symbol:

def foo() end             # => :foo
define_method :foo do end # => :foo

You can use this to do Python-like decorators like so:

private def foo; end 
memoize def foo...