Hey, I would check this out: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html
Syntax looks something like: http = Net::HTTP.new("www.google.com") headers, body = http.get() Hope that help Jim Englert http://www.jim-rants.com/coding-blog/ On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Frederick Cheung < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 19 Nov 2008, at 14:23, Max Williams wrote: > > > > > I know this is bad mvc, but i have a model class that needs to send a > > request off to a web service. At the moment i'm building a request > > string with url and params, and then doing a 'system' call to call > > curl > > with the url. This feels pretty dirty though. Is there a nicer way > > to > > just fire off an http request? > > > net/http or similar ? > > Fred > > thanks > > max > > -- > > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---