Is it safe to reuse Faraday connection objects?

Question

Is it safe to reuse Faraday connection objects, or is it better to recreate them every time?

def connection
  @connection ||= Faraday.new('http://example.com') do |conn|
    conn.request :url_encoded
    # more configuration
  end
end

Answer 1

I think it's safe to reuse them (I have, a lot). I don't see it really covered one way or another in the documentation but the presence of "Per-request options" (as opposed to per-connection) at least implies that you can rely on making multiple requests with the same connection.

Answer 2

https://github.com/lostisland/faraday/blob/52e30bf8e8d79159f332088189cb7f7e536d1ba1/lib/faraday/connection.rb#L502

connection.get .post and all other methods duplicates params etc here. It means each request shares nothing with each other and the parent Connection object.

It's safe to reuse.