Curb 0.0.1 - New ruby libcurl bindings

Ruby
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Curb 0.0.1 is now available from http://curb.rubyforge.org. Curb
provides
nice, easy to use bindings to the libcurl URL transfer library.

This is the first release, and Curb is still a work-in-progress.
Currently, it supports the curl_easy interface, and can handle the most
common usages for libcurl.

The project is now seeking user feedback, testers on various platforms,
and requests for the features you need the most.

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On Nov 17, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Ross B. wrote:

Curb 0.0.1 is now available from http://curb.rubyforge.org. Curb
provides nice, easy to use bindings to the libcurl URL transfer
library.

This is the first release, and Curb is still a work-in-progress.
Currently, it supports the curl_easy interface, and can handle the
most common usages for libcurl.

Bravo! Thank you for this!

James Edward G. II

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On 11/17/06, Ross B. [email protected] wrote:

Curb 0.0.1 is now available from http://curb.rubyforge.org. Curb provides
nice, easy to use bindings to the libcurl URL transfer library.

This is the first release, and Curb is still a work-in-progress.
Currently, it supports the curl_easy interface, and can handle the most
common usages for libcurl.

The project is now seeking user feedback, testers on various platforms,
and requests for the features you need the most.

Awesome, Ross! In my basic testing, it seems to work on amd64 also.

jeremy

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Here here!

If you search the newsgroup, you’ll see that this is one of the most
commonly requested libs for Ruby. A hearty thanks to starting this!
Now, only to see those version numbers grow!

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Thanks ross !

Does the lib support streams of datas ?

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Cheers,
zimbatm

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On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:05:06 -0000, S. Robert J.
[email protected] wrote:

Here here!

If you search the newsgroup, you’ll see that this is one of the most
commonly requested libs for Ruby. A hearty thanks to starting this!
Now, only to see those version numbers grow!

Yeah, I’ve seen so many requests that I felt guilty sitting on it any
longer :slight_smile:

I’m planning to divide my (somewhat limited) open-source time fairly
evenly between curb and libxml-ruby for a while, so it should move
reasonably quickly, but curb will get stable a lot quicker if people get
involved and help me test and improve it… :wink:

Cheers,

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On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:32:01 -0000, Jonas P. [email protected]
wrote:

Thanks ross !

Does the lib support streams of datas ?

It depends on what you mean. Theres still some work to do integrating
with
Curl’s stream handling, so for the most part the answer is “not
directly”

  • it’s not yet at the point where you can pass in IO handles. So if
    you’re
    after streamed PUTs and so forth you’re out of luck right now
    (especially
    since PUT isn’t actually supported yet, either ;)).

OTOH If you’re just doing big downloads and don’t want to keep it all in
memory until you’re done, theres more support for that - you can supply
your own header and body handlers as needed, e.g:

File.open(‘some.file’, ‘w+’) do |f|
Curl.perform(‘http://your/url’) do |curl|
curl.on_body { |data| f << data }
end
end

Also, when doing HTTP file uploads with POST, if you supply a filename
for
the post-field then the upload file won’t ever get wholly read into
memory, either (libcurl takes care of the stream itself).

Cheers,

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Ross B. wrote:

Yeah, I’ve seen so many requests that I felt guilty sitting on it any
longer :slight_smile:

I’m planning to divide my (somewhat limited) open-source time fairly
evenly between curb and libxml-ruby for a while, so it should move
reasonably quickly, but curb will get stable a lot quicker if people get
involved and help me test and improve it… :wink:

We do our dev on Windoze as well as Linux - when’s Windows targetted
for? (I’d love to be able to help.)

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On 19/11/06, Ross B. [email protected] wrote:

  • it’s not yet at the point where you can pass in IO handles. So if you’re
    end
    end

Also, when doing HTTP file uploads with POST, if you supply a filename for
the post-field then the upload file won’t ever get wholly read into
memory, either (libcurl takes care of the stream itself).

Thanks Ross, this is exaclty what I was looking for. I’ll try the lib
later out.

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Cheers,
zimbatm