Rails - Sep 2007 - Is command line tool "curl" actually provided by Ruby on Rails or windows?

I tried using the command line tool "curl" in a Ruby console window
and got the message:-

''curl'' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable
program or batch file

The same thing happened in an ordinary "dos" window (calling the curl
from the ruby application''s folder).

I can''t find "curl" anywhere in any Ruby-related
documentation.  There
is a cURL website where I could ask about this but I thought I should
ask here first. I am following along with "Agile Web Developement with
Rails" where I have set up a REST-style interface to generate an XML
feed from the application using an rxml template. My curl looks like:-

curl http://localhost:3000/info/who_bought/1

I added my little issue with the Report Erratum and so far no-one has
responded.

Does anyone know what''s happeing here


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On Sep 23, 2007, at 4:22 PM, rupertrealbear wrote:
> ''curl'' is not recognized as an internal or external
command, operable
> program or batch file
http://curl.haxx.se/

Comes bundled with Mac OS X and some Linux distributions.

-faisal


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rupertrealbear wrote:
> I tried using the command line tool "curl" in a Ruby console
window
> and got the message:-
> 
> ''curl'' is not recognized as an internal or external
command, operable
> program or batch file
> 
> The same thing happened in an ordinary "dos" window (calling the
curl
> from the ruby application''s folder).
> 
curl (and its friend wget) are from unix-land -- they have nothing to do 
with Ruby; they''re command-line tools that will get a web page.  This 
can be vary useful for getting behind the covers of what''s happening in
a web request.  There may be a "straight" DOS/Windows version
available
(see for example 
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/cURL_for_Windows/966899018/1).

I am sure you can also get these as part of the Cygwin package.  Cygwin 
is a kind of unix/linux that actually runs within Windows.  It may be 
worth checking this out, because even though Ruby/Rails run in Windows, 
its "heritage" is pretty unixy.  Unix may be something worth getting a
little familiar with, and Cygwin is an impressive attempt to do unix on 
Windows.

Tom
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:31:58 -0400, Faisal N Jawdat wrote:
> Comes bundled with Mac OS X and some Linux distributions.
Yep.  If you''re going to do Rails on Windows, you may want to look into
"cygwin" - it provides many of the basic command-line tools that are
present in UNIX/Linux.

On the other hand, it can be confusing, because it''s a whole
environment
unto itself.  So you may end up with two versions of ruby (one in Windows,
one in cygwin), two sets of gem libraries, etc. etc.


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