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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](http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/) 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.