title: Rails non-blocking post
body: <p>I need to POST to another server rather frequently in my Rails app, but it takes foreeever. The catch is that I don't need the response. Is there any way to speed things up by sending the request and then dropping the connection without waiting for a response, without getting into delayed job or event machine? If those are the only option, I can deal with it, but it would make life simpler not to have to.</p>
  
  <p>Here's what I have now:</p>
  
  <pre><code>remoteAddress = 'http://remote.server.address/'
  
  params = {
    'a' =&gt; a,
    'b' =&gt; b }
  
  url = URI.parse(remoteAddress)
  Net::HTTP.post_form(url, params)
  </code></pre>