Fire and Forget (FNF)

Intro

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.

Usage (worker)

Start the server

fnf

Usage (client)

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

gem 'fnf' or gem install fnf

From anywhere:

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

Kicking the tires

Start a rails project

rails new foo

Start the server

cd foo
rails server

Clone this project

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

Start the fnf server

bin/fnf

Run the test

ruby fnf_test.rb

You should see a request for /asdd hit your rails logs