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Support forum for this project is at [http://groups.google.com/group/curb---ruby-libcurl-bindings](http://groups.google.com/group/curb---ruby-libcurl-bindings)

building on ubuntu

the following .debs are required - libcurl3, libcurl3-gnutls, libcurl4-openssl-dev

Sending multiple requests

  d1 = ""
  c1 = Curl::Easy.new("http://www.google.com/") do |curl|
    curl.headers["User-Agent"] = "myapp-0.0"
    curl.on_body {|d| d1 << d; d.length }
  end

  d2 = ""
  c2 = Curl::Easy.new("http://www.yahoo.com/") do |curl|
    curl.headers["User-Agent"] = "myapp-0.0"
    curl.on_body {|d| d2 << d; d.length }
  end

  m = Curl::Multi.new

  m.add( c1 )
  m.add( c2 )

  m.perform

Installing Curb in Windows 7

Make sure DevKit is installed before you do the following task.

1. Download curl-7.23.1-devel-mingw32 from http://www.gknw.net/mirror/curl/win32/curl-7.23.1-devel-mingw32.zip
2. Extract to e.g. C:\
3. Add C:\curl-7.23.1-devel-mingw32\bin to path
4. gem install curb -- --with-curl-lib=C:\curl-7.23.1-devel-mingw32\bin--with-curl-include=C:\curl-7.23.1-devel-mingw32\include

That's it.