How do I set the user agent for Ruby's RestClient?

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I'm interested in setting my own user agent when using the ruby RestClient gem.

http://github.com/archiloque/rest-client

However, I can't find any documentation on how to do so. Any pointers?

score 20 · Accepted Answer · edited May 01 '13 at 19:08

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RestClient.get 'http://localhost', :user_agent => "myagent"

See https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/blob/master/lib/restclient.rb

edited May 01 '13 at 19:08

Clay Bridges

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '16 at 20:40

Not sure the accepted answer is very clear. User agent is set just by a header of the request. And what I see in sources is that they set default user agent by setting :user_agent header to the request. It depends on the way you use the API how you set it. See #default_headers method in the linked source file.

How do I set the user agent for Ruby's RestClient?

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