HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts
active 2024-09-15 → 2026-07-14 (UTC)
Activity over time
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Line chart, 668 days from 2024-09-15 to 2026-07-14. Pushes: 57 total, peak 10 in a day. Pull requests: 15 total, peak 2 in a day. Issues: 41 total, peak 13 in a day. Comments: 55 total, peak 12 in a day. Stars: 67 total, peak 3 in a day.
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Stars, PRs, issues and forks are under-captured in the later part of this window. GH Archive progressively stopped capturing non-push events during 2026 — −95% or worse by the end of the window. Every series here except Pushes fades for that reason, so a decline above reflects the archive, not this repository. Pushes stay reliable throughout, so read them, and the contributor counts derived from them, as the real signal. Data health has the measurements.
Top contributors
Pushes, PRs, issues, reviews and comments — stars and forks excluded, so this is contribution rather than popularity
| Contributor | Contributions | Pushes | PRs | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sferik | 88 | 49 | 2 | 10 |
| ixti | 53 | 8 | 11 | 20 |
| tarcieri | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| r1710518272-ops | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Annih | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Copilot | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| c960657 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| TheBlackArroVV | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| bkuhlmann | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| andrepcg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| cspeer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| tanys123 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| sebyx07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| tycooon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| pineman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| baseballlover723 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| ThisIsMissEm | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ilyabylich-st | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| omkarmoghe | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| lineofflightagent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Recent activity
Latest issues, pull requests and releases
- Issue#542sferik2026-05-26 19:42Remove Timeout.timeout
- Issue comment#839omkarmoghe2026-05-17 03:20Raise specific error classes for 4xx and 5xx errors
- Issue#836sferik2026-03-18 01:59Remove zanker as a gem owner
- Issue#812sferik2026-03-17 03:49Documentation: Usage of HTTPS certificates for local development
- Issue#356sferik2026-03-17 03:47http_proxy and https_proxy (and probably no_proxy) not supported out of the box
- Issue#470sferik2026-03-17 03:47Feature request: timeout subclasses
- Issue#644sferik2026-03-17 03:47[Feature] Ruby 3 Ractor support?
- Releasegithub-actions[bot]2026-03-17 03:30v6.0.1
- Pull request#790ixti2026-03-16 23:48
- Issue comment#790sferik2026-03-16 05:17Release v6.0.0
- Issue comment#790tarcieri2026-03-15 01:04Release v6.0.0
- Issue comment#790sferik2026-03-15 00:41Release v6.0.0
- Pull request#790sferik2026-03-15 00:30
- Issue comment#502sferik2026-03-15 00:28Timeouts when streaming responses on persistent connections can cause HTTP::StateError errors for retries
- Issue#490sferik2026-03-13 12:25incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT
- Issue comment#490sferik2026-03-13 12:25incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT
- Issue#459sferik2026-03-13 05:08couldn't read response headers (HTTP::ConnectionError)
- Issue comment#561tycooon2026-03-12 06:43Problem with request timeout
- Issue#511sferik2026-03-12 01:58Can't put cookie jar into a request
- Issue comment#511sferik2026-03-12 01:58Can't put cookie jar into a request
- Issue#479sferik2026-03-12 01:51jruby-9.1.15.0 getting timeouts talking to Java/Jetty server, but ONLY when passing in timeout options
- Issue comment#479sferik2026-03-12 01:51jruby-9.1.15.0 getting timeouts talking to Java/Jetty server, but ONLY when passing in timeout options
- Issue comment#573sferik2026-03-12 01:21How to get HTTP gem's current User-Agent easily? (HTTP gem updates change the User-Agent header, annoyingly breaking webmocks.)
- Issue#813sferik2026-03-11 21:16HPE_INVALID_HEADER_TOKEN on 5.3.1 and 5.2.0
- Issue#448sferik2026-03-11 17:49Feature Request: Support digest authentication (digest_auth, RFC2617)
Totals cover only the window loaded into ClickHouse and count events, not GitHub's lifetime totals — 67 stars here means stars gained during the window, not the repo's star count.