typhoeus example

gistfile1.rb

hydra = Typhoeus::Hydra.new :max_concurrency => 5
urls = %w(http://www.google.com/ http://engadget.com/ 
            http://rubyonrails.org/ http://railscasts.com/)
responses = []

urls.each do |url|
  req = Typhoeus::Request.new url
  req.on_complete do |resp|
    if resp.success?
      responses << resp.body
    else
      responses << "#{url} failed with #{resp.code}"
    end
  end

  hydra.enqueue req
end

hydra.run # let the magic begin!