httpbin: HTTP Client Testing Service

HTTPie consists of a single http command designed for painless debugging and interaction with HTTP servers, RESTful APIs, and web services

It easy to use and has very nice defaults and coloured output which makes it good for local testing.

Usa...

Once you start introducing partial updates, you open yourself for caching problems. doing partial updates means all cached copies of the original resource are now invalid.

ShamRack mounts a Rack app locally, just for your tests. It goes one further: it “mounts” it using Net::HTTP such that requests to the Rack app never hit any network.

RubyMine has a HTTP Client that can be useful to test web APIs.
Just create a .http scratch file an write your request in it.
The request can then be executed with the "Run all requests in File" button above the file.

Some alternatives:

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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/...

Terminus is a Capybara driver where most of the driver functions are implemented in client-side JavaScript. It lets you script any browser on any machine using the Capybara API, without any browser plugins or extensions.

Browsera automatically detects cross-browser layout problems and scripting errors on your website.

Occasionally, you have to talk to APIs via HTTPS that use a custom certificate or a misconfigured certificate chain (like missing an intermediate certificate).

Using RestClient will then raise RestClient::SSLCertificateNotVerified errors, or wh...

When HTTP clients make an request they can define which response formats they can process. They do it by adding a header to the HTTP request like this:

Accept: application/json

This means the client will only understand JSON respon...

When your public-facing application has a longer downtime for server maintenance or long migrations, it's nice to setup a maintenance page to inform your users.

When delivering the maintenance page, be *...