Faraday Adapters Benchmark

benchmark.rb

require 'benchmark'
require 'json'
require 'faraday'
require 'typhoeus'
require 'patron'
require 'httpclient'
require 'typhoeus/adapters/faraday'

n = 100

params = {
  'foo' => 'bar'
  # an actual request that does a bunch of stuff
}

adapters = [:net_http, :net_http_persistent, :patron, :httpclient, :typhoeus]

def create_client(adapter)
  host = 'https://example.wework.com/'

  Faraday.new(url: host, ssl: { verify: false }) do |conn|
    conn.adapter adapter
  end
end

Benchmark.bm(20) do |x|

  adapters.each do |adapter|
    x.report("#{adapter}:") do
      client = create_client(adapter)

      n.times do |i|
        client.post do |req|
          req.url "/endpoint?i=#{i}"
          req.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
          req.body = JSON.generate(params)
        end
      end
    end
  end

end

Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'faraday'
gem 'net-http-persistent'
gem 'typhoeus'
gem 'patron'
gem 'httpclient'
gem 'net-http2'

results.txt

                           user     system      total        real
net_http:              0.910000   0.190000   1.100000 (  9.382847)
net_http_persistent:   0.980000   0.170000   1.150000 (  9.245193)
patron:                0.150000   0.110000   0.260000 (  2.233322)
httpclient:            0.150000   0.100000   0.250000 (  2.142556)
typhoeus:              0.120000   0.070000   0.190000 (  2.138841)