asynchronous http request in ruby

Question

 require \'net/http\'

urls = [
  {\'link\' => \'http://www.google.com/\'},
  {\'link\' => \'http://www.facebook.com/\'},
 {\'link\' => \'http://www.yahoo.c         


        

Answer 1

Lightweight Async handling is the job of Threads (as you said) or Fibers.

Otherwise, you should consider EventMachine which is a very powerful tool.

EDIT: The above URL for Event Machine is dead. Here is their GitHub account, https://github.com/eventmachine/eventmachine . It serves as a good starting point.