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http vs rest: What are the differences?
Developers describe http as "An easy-to-use client library for making requests from Ruby". An easy-to-use client library for making requests from Ruby. It uses a simple method chaining system for building requests, similar to Python's Requests. On the other hand, rest is detailed as "Rest client wrapper that chooses best installed client". Rest client wrapper that chooses best installed client.
http and rest belong to "RubyGems Packages" category of the tech stack.
http and rest are both open source tools. It seems that http with 2.74K GitHub stars and 272 forks on GitHub has more adoption than rest with 23 GitHub stars and 5 GitHub forks.
http Stats
- Dependent Packages Counts - 566
rest Stats
- Dependent Packages Counts - 10
http Vulnerabilities
- http vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized ActorModerate
rest Vulnerabilities
No Vulnerabilities found
http Release info
Latest version
5.0.4
MIT
rest Release info
Latest version
3.0.8
BSD-2-Clause
What is http?
An easy-to-use client library for making requests from Ruby. It uses a simple method chaining system for building requests, similar to Python's Requests.
What is rest?
Rest client wrapper that chooses best installed client.
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