= REST Client -- simple DSL for accessing REST resources

A simple REST client for Ruby, inspired by the Sinatra's microframework style
of specifying actions: get, put, post, delete.

== Usage: Raw URL

  require 'rest_client'

  xml = RestClient.get 'http://example.com/resource'
  jpg = RestClient.get 'http://example.com/resource', :accept => 'image/jpg'

  private_resource = RestClient.get 'https://user:password@example.com/private/resource'

  RestClient.put 'http://example.com/resource', File.read('my.pdf'), :content_type => 'application/pdf'

  RestClient.post 'http://example.com/resource', xml, :content_type => 'application/xml'

  RestClient.delete 'http://example.com/resource'

See RestClient module docs for details.

== Usage: ActiveResource-Style

  resource = RestClient::Resource.new 'http://example.com/resource'
  resource.get

  private_resource = RestClient::Resource.new 'https://example.com/private/resource', 'user', 'pass'
  private_resource.put File.read('pic.jpg'), :content_type => 'image/jpg'

See RestClient::Resource module docs for details.

== Usage: Resource Nesting

  site = RestClient::Resource.new('http://example.com')
  site['posts/1/comments'].post 'Good article.', :content_type => 'text/plain'

See RestClient::Resource docs for details.

== Shell

The restclient shell command gives an IRB session with RestClient already loaded:

  $ restclient
  >> RestClient.get 'http://example.com'

Specify a URL argument for get/post/put/delete on that resource:

  $ restclient http://example.com
  >> put '/resource', 'data'

Add a user and password for authenticated resources:

  $ restclient https://example.com user pass
  >> delete '/private/resource'

Create ~/.restclient for named sessions:

  sinatra:
    :url: http://localhost:4567
  rack:
    :url: http://localhost:9292
  private_site:
    :url: http://example.com
    :username: user
    :password: pass

Then invoke:

  $ restclient private_site
  
== Meta

Written by Adam Wiggins (adam at heroku dot com)

Patches contributed by: Chris Anderson, Greg Borenstein, Ardekantur, Pedro Belo, Rafael Souza, Rick Olson, Aman Gupta, 
and Blake Mizerany

Released under the MIT License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

http://rest-client.heroku.com

http://github.com/adamwiggins/rest-client