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Re: Feedzirra (more importantly, curb) on JRuby?

by James Abley :: Rate this Message:

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2009/7/3 Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>:

> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Matthew
> Williams<matthew.d.williams@...> wrote:
>> Has anyone had to deal with finding an alternative to curb (an
>> interface to curl) that's JRuby friendly?
>>
>> I'm moving a system over from MRI that's using Feedzirra
>> (http://github.com/pauldix/feedzirra/tree/master) and the alternatives
>> to Feedzirra have been so so...
>
> Curb has come up a couple times...enough that it seems like a good
> project to create a Curb-compatible wrapper around some Java HTTP
> library. Anyone want to look into it and see how much effort would be
> required? It can't be that hard...
>
> - Charlie
>

I quite fancy that. It's a nice mix of my (supposed!) skills. Is there
a HOWTO or something for porting, and any suggested good examples;
e.g. should I look at nokogiri as an example of how to provide a
Java-specific version of a gem?

Cheers,

James

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