Rails - Nov 2007 - Initiating a GET request in parrelel w/o waiting for respons

I have an external image processing server and I would like to get that
action going inline with an action on my current server.

How do I initiate a GET request and not care for the response, so that
it doesnt halt my action. I understand its flaky in that I don''t know
if
the action completed successfully, but speed is very important here, and
they have to be inline.


I know I could venture into threading, but I''ve heard bad things about
that boat. Maybe there is something along the lines of calling a `curl
(url)` where curl doesnt care about the response or it gets threaded
out?

Anyone have suggestions?

PS I accidentally posted this on Rails Deployment. Sorry for that.
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On Nov 6, 2007 7:32 PM, Aryk Grosz
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> I have an external image processing server and I would like to get that
> action going inline with an action on my current server.
>
> How do I initiate a GET request and not care for the response, so that
> it doesnt halt my action. I understand its flaky in that I don''t
know if
> the action completed successfully, but speed is very important here, and
> they have to be inline.
>
>
> I know I could venture into threading, but I''ve heard bad things
about
> that boat. Maybe there is something along the lines of calling a `curl
> (url)` where curl doesnt care about the response or it gets threaded
> out?
>
> Anyone have suggestions?
>
Have you looked at backgroundrb at all?  Sounds like it might fit the bill
for your problem.

http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org

Michael Guterl

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You might want to look into AP4R (Asynchronous Processing for Ruby).  
They presented at RubyConf and it seems like it might fit the bill for  
what you''re trying to do.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ap4r/

Michael Bleigh
michael-+08J6pdAJjhWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org

On Nov 6, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Aryk Grosz wrote:
>
> I have an external image processing server and I would like to get  
> that
> action going inline with an action on my current server.
>
> How do I initiate a GET request and not care for the response, so that
> it doesnt halt my action. I understand its flaky in that I don''t  
> know if
> the action completed successfully, but speed is very important here,  
> and
> they have to be inline.
>
>
> I know I could venture into threading, but I''ve heard bad things
about
> that boat. Maybe there is something along the lines of calling a `curl
> (url)` where curl doesnt care about the response or it gets threaded
> out?
>
> Anyone have suggestions?
>
> PS I accidentally posted this on Rails Deployment. Sorry for that.
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >

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