title: How do I get the contents of an http request in Ruby?
body: <p>In PHP I can do this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$request = "http://www.example.com/someData";
  $response = file_get_contents($request);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How would I do the same thing in Ruby (or some Rails method?)</p>
  
  <p>I've been googling for a half an hour and coming up completely short.</p>