Idle Hacking

I just discovered this really useful feature built into Ruby's network library.

set_debug_output

You can use this to get extensive debugging for everything sent or received.

You might use it like this:

@uri = URI.parse(service_url)
@url = Net::HTTP.new(@uri.host, @uri.port)
@url.set_debug_output $stderr

That will print out everything sent and received using that @url object.