Prefer Faraday as default HTTP client
Prefer Faraday as the default HTTP client
Pros 🔗
- Global configuration options - open/read timeout, retries, etc.
- Configure retries using
FaradayMiddleware::Retry - Easily extend with middleware, e.g. decoding JSON
- Faster than httparty (speed comparison: https://www.scrapingdog.com/blog/ruby-http-clients/)
- Supports multiple adapters (Net::HTTP, Typhoeus, Patron, Excon, etc.)
Bad 🔗
require 'httparty'
require 'extended_httparty'
# GET request
response = HTTParty.get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1', timeout: 5)
# GET request with retry
response = ExtendedHttparty.get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1', tries: 5)
Good 🔗
require 'faraday'
# GET request
Faraday.get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1')
# GET request with retry
require 'faraday/retry'
conn = Faraday.new do |f|
f.request :retry, {
max: 5,
interval: 0.05,
interval_randomness: 0.5,
backoff_factor: 2,
timeout: 5,
}
end
conn.get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1')