Is it possible to initiate multiple parallel http requests using EventMachine with Ruby 1.8

Question

em-synchrony.rb implements this feature with Fibers but I would go for a non-Fibre version with 1.8 MRI.

EM.run do
  http = EM::Protocols::HttpClient2.connect("www.google.com", 80)
  request = http.get("/")
  request.callback do
    puts request.status
    EM.stop
  end
end

Answer 1

Have a look at em-http-request:

EM.run do
  http1 = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new('http://example.com/1').get
  http1.callback do
    p http1.response
  end
  http2 = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new('http://example.com/2').get
  http2.callback do
    p http2.response
  end
end