From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2005-03-16T05:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: async http request

Bob Aman wrote:
> I'm currently working on a ruby on rails page that needs to query a
> web service, retrieve a few rss feeds and do a whole bunch of SQL
> queries.  Right now, my code is doing all of this somewhat
> inefficiently.  Ideally, I'd like to be able to do the http requests
> on the page asynchronously if possible.  However, I have yet to find
> any example code or documentation that shows how to do this.  I saw
> the http-access2 library, though that seemed quite complicated
> compared to the open-uri method I'm using now.  Any suggestions about
> how best to go about this?  

This is on the server, correct?

Can you use Ruby threads for each of the various requests?


James Britt


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