Rcurl

Rcurl is a curl like(with limited number of features) tool with a pretty output.

It also provides simple way to send RPC requests in XML format.

Installation

This is more like a standalone gem so adding it to Gemfile would not be that much beneficial.

Install it yourself as:

$ gem install rcurl

Usage

rcurl URL [options] 

Available options

For available options use

rcurl --help

Command output

Usage: rcurl URL [options]
    -X, --request=TYPE               Execute HTTP VERB
    -r, --rpc-xml x[,y,z]            Use RPC request. Provide comma separated list of arguments
    -u, --user=USER:PASSWORD         Basic auth user:password
    -d, --body BODY                  Provide body -d@file_path or json/xml body
    -H, --headers HEADERS            HTTP headers: -H 'Content-Type: value; X-Custom-Header: value'
    -h, --help                       Prints this help

Plain requests

rcurl "http://host/api/v1/resource"

POST

rcurl "http://host/api/v1/resource" -d@data.json -X POST

With bacis auth

rcurl -u user:password "http://host/api/v1/resource"

XMLRPC

rcurl "http://host/api_xmlrpc/v1/resource" --rpc MethodName,Param1,Param2,ParamX

Example Response

Json api

{
    "customer_id" => 1,
           "name" => Lucas,
        "address" => "Sunset avenue",
         "phone"  => "123-456-789"
}

#TODO:

• Implement SSL support
• Implement JSON RPC
• Implement -v, timeout flags

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/rcurl/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request