# httprb/http

HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts

Repository: https://github.com/httprb/http
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/http
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ruby, http-client, http, client
Last push: 2026-08-25T14:56:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 80, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5445, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 135, "gap_med": 3, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3084, forks 325 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:42.008708+00:00)

## What it is
http.rb is a fast, easy-to-use Ruby HTTP client library with a chainable API. It implements the HTTP protocol natively using the llhttp parser for high performance, with support for streaming responses, persistent connections, and fine-grained timeouts.

## Use cases
- make http requests from ruby
- stream large http response bodies
- ruby http client with timeouts
- replace net::http with a cleaner api
- download files over http in ruby
- make persistent keep-alive http connections

## When to choose
- you want a clean, chainable API instead of Net::HTTP
- you need high-performance HTTP parsing via native extensions
- you need response body streaming or fine-grained timeouts
- you need persistent connections in Ruby

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured client with built-in retries, cookies, and middleware out of the box
- your project already standardizes on another Ruby HTTP client like Faraday
- you need async/evented HTTP (consider a dedicated async client)

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: http-client
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, apis
- platform: ruby, cross-platform
- tags: http, streaming, timeouts, chainable-api, llhttp

## Member repositories
- httprb/http (main) score 93

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:42.008708+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:27:41.066132+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/httprb/http (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:42.008708+00:00, sha b19bcc3ccb13)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.