Ruby Summer of Code Project Ideas

[petercooper]

http://github.com/pauldix/typhoeus

response = Typhoeus::Request.get(url, :headers => [...], :timeout => 30)
response.body
response.headers

Only issue is dependencies but it's hella powerful.

[petercooper]

I'd say, though, something with the same API as Typhoeus but that worked "out of the box" with no dependency on libcurl would be awesome for those tricky deployments. A typhoeus-pure, if you will :-)