gistfile1.rb

#! /usr/bin/env ruby
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

require 'rubygems'
require 'typhoeus'
require 'json'
require 'time'
require 'net/http'

class Twitter
  include Typhoeus
  remote_defaults :on_success => lambda {|responce| JSON.parse(responce.body) },
                  :on_failure => lambda {|responce| responce.code.inspect },
                  :base_uri   => 'http://search.twitter.com'

  define_remote_method :search, :path => '/search.json'
  define_remote_method :trends, :path => '/trends/:time_frame.json'
end

start = Time.now
tweets = Twitter.search(:params => { :q => 'railsconf' })
period = Time.now - start
puts "Typhoeus total: #{period}"

# tweets['results'].each do |tweet|
#   puts "(#{Time.parse(tweet['created_at']).strftime("%m-%d %H:%M")}) #{tweet['from_user']}: #{tweet['text']}"
# end

Net::HTTP.version_1_2
start = Time.now
Net::HTTP.start('search.twitter.com', 80) do |http|
  response = http.get('/search.json?q=railsconf')
  body = JSON.parse(response.body)
end
period = Time.now - start
puts "Net;HTTP total: #{period}"