From: matu <m@...>
Date: 2008-07-25T05:49:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Simultaneously URL call, is it possible?

Toki Toki wrote:

> I need to test a functionality of an application before to go in
> production environment, unfortunately it isn't a ruby application, I
> thought to use a script that will call a url 5 times simultaneously or
> at least systematically, let's say every 10 seconds, is it possible with
> ruby? Maybe using watir (but I don't think it can do simultaneus call)?
> Any hint?

Yes. You could spawn threads and call the url from those.
%w[uri net/http].each{|l|require l}
10.times do
  Thread.new {Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('http://www.google.com/'))}
end