Ruby has a standard library for making web requests called Net::HTTP. It is famously terrible.

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Net::HTTP is notoriously clunky for making HTTP requests in Ruby. Four modern alternatives are compared: HTTParty (simple, good for scripts), Faraday (middleware-based, industry standard for production apps and SDKs), http.rb (chainable syntax, thread-safe, great for microservices), and HTTPX (HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support, native concurrency, best for high-performance scraping). A summary table maps each gem to its ideal use case.

Stop Using Net::HTTP: A Guide to Modern Ruby Requests