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Can I make asynchronous requests with Ruby's Typhoeus?

I am using Typhoeus and would like to make a single request without blocking for the response. Later on, I might check the response, or I might not. The point is I don't want the code execution to wait for the response.

Is there a way to do this built-in to Typhoeus?

Otherwise I guess I have to use threads and do it myself?

Solution

  • You could try using a thread:

    response = nil

request_thread = Thread.new {
  # Set up the request object here
  response = request.response
}

    From there you can check response == nil to see if the request has been made yet, and you can call request_thread.join to block until the thread is done executing.