Forum: JRuby Typhoeus alternatives?

Hello all.

I am looking for an HTTP client that can do multiple requests in 
parallel.

There is the typhoeus gem but I am running on windows and I would rather
skip the hassle that windows entails with this gem.

Does anyone have any typhoeus alternatives that they have used on JRuby?
(I seem to remember there was a Java library that someone suggested
using instead but I cannot remember the name. )

Worst case I simple do the threading part myself and use basic Net::HTTP
but a nicer solution would be...well, nicer ;)

Cheers

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

I have previously wrapped the xlightweb java library. 
http://xlightweb.org/

The github repo for the wrapper is 
https://github.com/guyboertje/jrxlightweb

It has a multi-threaded asynchronous option

I used it in the past to test true concurrent requests to the Mongrel 2
stack.

It may be of use

Guy.

Hello,

Maybe Apache JMeter, http://jmeter.apache.org/  ?
JMeter can send multiple HTTP requests in parallel.


-Yoko

Hello Guy,

Thanks for the link; I shall investigate.

Cheers

Jeff

Hi Jeffrey,

I think one of the http libraries which have been mentioned some time 
ago
was http://grizzly.java.net/ .

Hope this helps,
Martin

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Thank you for the suggestions Martin and Yoko-san

It is in fact Grizzly that I heard before, I thought I had done a search
on that and come up blank but obviously not.

I shall check it out.

!hanks

Jeff

When you need CRuby compatibility: gem install httpclient.
It runs faster than CRuby and also works effective under threaded 
context.
Not sure you can run Java client wrappers faster from JRuby.

Best regards,
Hiroshi Nakamura