faraday_install_config

🛠️ Installing and Configuring Faraday

Faraday is a flexible HTTP client library for Ruby that supports middleware stacking. To begin, add the gem and a JSON middleware to your Gemfile, then create a connection object to handle requests and responses uniformly.

# Gemfile
gem 'faraday'
gem 'faraday_middleware'

# config/initializers/faraday.rb
require 'faraday'
require 'faraday_middleware'

conn = Faraday.new(url: 'https://api.example.com') do |f|
  f.request  :url_encoded                # form-encode POST params
  f.response :logger, nil, { headers: true, bodies: true }  # log requests & responses
  f.response :json, content_type: /
/             # parse JSON responses automatically
  f.adapter  Faraday.default_adapter     # choose Net::HTTP or other adapters
end

This setup ensures your HTTP requests are encoded properly, logged for debugging, and JSON responses are parsed into Ruby hashes without extra effort. You can now reuse conn across your application to keep code DRY.