evdispatch

→ ‘evdispatch’

What

A library for making http requests in parallel. Uses the libev library to run an event loop on a background posix thread, that uses libcurls multi interface to issue HTTP requests.

Installing

sudo gem install evdispatch

The basics

Demonstration of usage

require 'rubygems'
require 'evdispatch'

# create a new dispatch loop
d = Evdispatch::Loop.new

# start the event loop thread
d.start

# send a dispatch http request and store a handle to the request
google_id = d.request_http("http://www.google.com/")

# do some processing and later on check for the response
response = d.response( google_id )

puts response[:response_time]
puts response[:body]

# sometime later you can stop the event loop
d.stop

Forum

http://groups.google.com/group/evdispatch

How to submit patches

Read the 8 steps for fixing other people’s code and for section 8b: Submit patch to Google Groups, use the Google Group above.

The trunk repository is http://evdispatch.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk for anonymous access.

F.A.Q.

• I get an error when installing the gem: “error: ‘curl_socket_t’ has not been declared”

  You need to have at least version 7.16 of libcurl. I recommend at least version: 7.18.1.

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

Comments are welcome. See the forum

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