The pull request about Rails gzip compression talks about compressing http responses from Rails. While the blog post above, and the Ruby documentation of Net::H

The pull request about Rails gzip compression talks about compressing http responses from Rails. While the blog post above, and the Ruby documentation of Net::HTTP, are talking about Ruby's new shiny default of compressing http requests (without care of the compressed response). Other than including the words 'gzip compression' the two topics are very different.