From: Zach Moazeni <zach.lists@...>
Date: 2010-05-18T12:17:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Asynchronous HTTP request

You could check out http://github.com/pauldix/typhoeus

It allows you to create parallel HTTP requests pretty easily.

On May 13, 2010, at 3:37 AM, Daniel DeLorme wrote:

> Does anyone know how to do the following, but without threads, purely with asynchronous IO?
> 
> website = Thread.new{ Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(url)) }
> template = compute_lots_of_stuff()
> puts template.sub("<content goes here>", website.value)
> 
> I'm not sure I understand EventMachine, but it doesn't seem like this code fits with the "event loop" model. Besides, I don't want to react to every chunk of data that comes it; I just want the result at the end.
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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