From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2009-09-11T02:12:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Asynchronous http POST?


On Sep 9, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Ivan Shevanski wrote:

> Hey everyone, I'm new to Ruby and to the mailing list, so go easy.
> Basically, I have to POST to a certain url, then I wait for a  
> response.
> The catch is that I have to do this to two urls at once. Both of them
> may respond to me almost instantly, or they may take up to 10  
> seconds to
> respond. I need to have a post to both of these running at all times  
> to
> catch incoming events. I will also need to post to other urls at the
> same time that these are running. So, I need to find a way to run  
> these
> two posts in the background constantly. From what I've read, ruby
> threads will hang on a command like this, since the interpreter does  
> not
> have control. Can anyone help (or understand) me?
>
> Thanks,
> Ivan
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>



Ivan-

	This is a perfect job for eventmachine and em-http-request. You can  
run as many async http requests as you want without blocking and  
handle the results with callback blocks.

http://github.com/igrigorik/em-http-request/tree/master

Cheers-	

Ezra Zygmuntowicz
ez@engineyard.com