open url in ruby controller

Question

I need to call some php script from ROR controller, so I tried to use open("url"), but it didn't work.
For example,

def successful_login
  open("http://stackoverflow.com")
  redirect_to home_url
end

Errno::EINVAL in UsersController#create
Invalid argument - http://stackoverflow.com

Any idea?

Answer 1

require 'net/http' require 'uri'

url = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/index.html')
res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http|
  http.get('/index.html')
}
puts res.body

Answer 2

require 'net/http'
Net::HTTP.get('www.example.com', '/index.html')

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