Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Paul Dix, of Feedzirra fame, strikes again! This time with Typhoeus (Github repo), a high-speed, parallel HTTP request library for Ruby. At first glance, you could be forgiven for wondering what the point is when we already have John Nunemaker's awesome HTTParty to build simple HTTP clients, but Typhoeus is, in many ways,