Faraday backends

benchmark.rb

require 'benchmark/ips'
require 'faraday'
require 'excon'
require 'typhoeus'#, '~> 0.3.3'
require 'patron'
require 'net-http-persistent'

default_adapter = Faraday.new(:url => 'http://localhost') do |faraday|
  faraday.adapter  Faraday.default_adapter  # make requests with Net::HTTP
end

net_http = Faraday.new(:url => 'http://localhost') do |faraday|
  faraday.adapter :net_http
end

excon = Faraday.new(:url => 'http://localhost') do |faraday|
  faraday.adapter :excon
end

typhoeus = Faraday.new(:url => 'http://localhost') do |faraday|
  faraday.adapter :typhoeus
end

patron = Faraday.new(:url => 'http://localhost') do |faraday|
  faraday.adapter :patron
end

net_http_persistent = Faraday.new(:url => 'http://localhost') do |faraday|
  faraday.adapter :net_http_persistent
end


Benchmark.ips do |x|
  x.time = 5
  x.warmup = 2

  x.report("default_adapter") { default_adapter.get '/errors/404.json' }
  x.report("net_http") { net_http.get '/errors/404.json' }
  x.report("excon") { excon.get '/errors/404.json' }
  x.report("typhoeus") { typhoeus.get '/errors/404.json'}
  x.report("patron") { patron.get '/errors/404.json'}
  x.report("net_http_persistent") { net_http_persistent.get '/errors/404.json'}

  x.compare!
end

# Calculating -------------------------------------
#      default_adapter   105.000  i/100ms
#             net_http   106.000  i/100ms
#                excon    74.000  i/100ms
#             typhoeus   206.000  i/100ms
#               patron   216.000  i/100ms
#  net_http_persistent   142.000  i/100ms
# -------------------------------------------------
#      default_adapter      1.037k (± 6.1%) i/s -      5.250k
#             net_http    978.088  (±11.0%) i/s -      4.876k
#                excon    518.018  (±57.3%) i/s -    296.000  in  15.169147s
#             typhoeus      1.991k (±11.7%) i/s -      9.682k
#               patron      2.029k (±22.1%) i/s -      8.856k in   5.271006s
#  net_http_persistent      1.500k (±20.7%) i/s -      6.674k

# Comparison:
#               patron:     2028.7 i/s
#             typhoeus:     1991.1 i/s - 1.02x slower
#  net_http_persistent:     1499.7 i/s - 1.35x slower
#      default_adapter:     1037.0 i/s - 1.96x slower
#             net_http:      978.1 i/s - 2.07x slower
#                excon:      518.0 i/s - 3.92x slower