From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-03-28T16:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: non-blocking calls to external APIs

On 03/28/2010 07:29 AM, David Collier wrote:

> i need to send some logging information off to another system, via
> rest/http.
> in a rails app we're currently using delayedJob, which stores the events
> to the DB, and another process sends them. this is a pretty heavy
> process.

> Are there any ways to use the net/http library to "fire and forget" a
> call?
> or perhaps a simple implementation using threads, that will be less
> resource intensive than "curl &"

The simplest that comes to mind: stuff your operations in a queue and 
have one or more threads process them.

Cheers

	robert

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