dir = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib')) require File.join(dir, 'httparty') require 'pp' # You can also use post, put, delete in the same fashion response = HTTParty.get('http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json') puts response.body, response.code, response.message, response.headers.inspect response.each do |item| puts item['user']['screen_name'] end