Seriously, checkout delayed_job. It's super easy to implement, and is anything but overkill. Here's the URL for the project: http://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job
... and as an added bonus, Ryan Bates covers it in a Railscast. Here's the URL for the Railscast: http://railscasts.com/episodes/171-delayed-job Cheers, Tim On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM, nextpulse <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any one know if it is possible to do a non-blocking http request > within Ror? > > I looked at Net::HTTP, nothing obvious. > > In my code, I want to fire off a http request (and not care about the > return or wait for it) and continue with the rest of the work. > I know I can use backgroundrb etc - but that seems an overkill. > > Any help appreciated. > > thanks. > > > > -- Tim Lowrimore Coroutine LLC 516 Tennessee St., Suite 215 Memphis, TN 38103 office: 901.312.8818 mobile: 901.490.5325 http://www.coroutine.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
