Fire and Forget (FNF)

Fire and Forget replaces the need to write resque tasks or delayed jobs to fire off web requests (usually notification webhooks or a anti-spam service, like defensio or akismet). A single worker reads and executes web requests from a named pipe, while clients write to that pipe. It uses typhoeus internally to execute the web requests for maximum speed.

Clone the project

git clone git@github.com:capotej/fnf.git

Install dependencies

bundle install

Run the worker

ruby bin/fnf

Run ba, a nodejs webserver that outputs how many req/s its getting

node ba.js

Run fnf_test.rb which queues 2k web requests which node then receives

ruby fnf_test.rb

Add to gemfile, vendor the gem, gem install, etc

gem 'fnf' or gem install fnf

Start the server on the same machine as the client

fnf

Then in the client, you can do

require 'fnf'
Fnf::Client.queue({:post => "http://api.akismet.com/process", :params => { :thing => "2123" })