News You Can Bruise for 2006 December 21

My open-uri hack isn't going into Ruby anytime soon, so rather than have to devote a bunch of space in the book to hacking or reimplementing, I packaged it as the rest-open-uri gem. You can use it wherever you'd use open-uri, and it supports entity-bodies and all the HTTP methods. It's the only Ruby HTTP client library I need! And I think it should work even in programs that also use open-uri (so long as you require it after open-uri).