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Comment by petercooper | Hacker News Reader

That's "not too bad" if you're coming from Java. Thankfully most other Ruby libraries have significantly less verbose APIs than this.

There's a much simpler way to do POSTs with Net::HTTP:

  response = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse("http://example.com"), {:param => "val"})

Personally, I'm a big fan of open-uri for super-simple requests and HTTParty for anything more complex.