From: Daniel N <has.sox@...>
Date: 2010-05-19T08:27:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Asynchronous HTTP request

--00504502ce959500850486e6abb0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On 18 May 2010 16:56, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> wrote:

> Daniel N wrote:
>
>> On 13 May 2010 17:37, Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@dan42.com> 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)
>>>
>>
>> Event machine is perfect for this kind of stuff.  Weather it fits with the
>> rest of your web framework is more likely the thing that makes it an
>> unlikely selection (if you're using anything rack based for example)
>>
>
> If you could show me how to use EventMachine in this case I'd be grateful.
> I couldn't figure out how to run compute_lots_of_stuff() while the http
> requests are executing.
>

What context are you trying to do this in?  Is it inside a rack request
(rails / merb / sinatra /pancake / other)?  or is this in a stand alone
script?

Could you perhaps provide a bit of context for what you're trying to achive?

Cheers
Daniel

--00504502ce959500850486e6abb0--