curl is great unless you have a bunch of form params to post

quick_post.rb

require 'restclient'

#flip verbose to get more or less output
verbose = true
if verbose
  require 'net-http-spy'
  Net::HTTP.http_logger_options = {:verbose => true}
end

# params get form-encoded
post_params = {
  :ohai => "lol wut?!*'();:@&=+$,/?%#[]",
  :ohnoz => "really?"
}

post = RestClient.post "http://not-doing-much.heroku.com/", post_params
puts post