A wrapper around the "request" module which allows use of the promises style for dealing with the response.

deferredRequest.coffee

Q = require 'q'
request = require 'request'

init = request.Request::init
request.Request::init = (options) ->
	defer = Q.defer()
	@on 'complete', defer.resolve
	@on 'error', defer.reject

	# copy over promise functions, except timeout.
	for key, val of defer.promise when key isnt 'timeout'
		@[key] ?= defer.promise[key]

	init.call @, options

module.exports = request

example.coffee

request('http://www.example.com').then (response) ->
  # do stuff with response