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Curb your Net::HTTP

Posted on 04/08/2008, 6:21 pm, by aaron, under All, Rails.

Curb is a ruby binding for libcurl. We’ve had sporadic issues with Net::HTTP, which this might aleviate via native dns, native timeouts, performance improvements, etc. It wouldnt be hard to re-implement ActiveResource, rfacebook, myspace-ruby, etc to use it instead. Anyone using this already?

sudo gem install curb

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘curb’
require "net/http"
require ‘benchmark’

iterations = 40
Benchmark.bm [...]

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