Rails - Jun 2006 - Function/Method Execution Progress Bar

Hello,

I want to create a progress bar for the exececution of a particular 
function.

I found a solution at http://brainspl.at/articles/tag/background but one 
need to create a separate server that communicates the progress of a 
job.

Is there anyways to change a global variable or so and have the user see 
the execution stage of the function?

I tried playing with Thread but no success because for the page to be 
loaded the thread must finish.

Thanks for your time,

Roland

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http://rails.techno-weenie.net/question/2005/12/24/how_do_you_display_the_progress_of_a_long_running_action

-Jonathan.

On 6/25/06, Roland Mai <roland.mai@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to create a progress bar for the exececution of a particular
> function.
>
> I found a solution at http://brainspl.at/articles/tag/background but one
> need to create a separate server that communicates the progress of a
> job.
>
> Is there anyways to change a global variable or so and have the user see
> the execution stage of the function?
>
> I tried playing with Thread but no success because for the page to be
> loaded the thread must finish.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Roland
>
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Thanks Jonathan,

brainspl.at is blog of "ezmobius" who proposed the solution with the
drb
server.

Actually, I did implement before reading this blog the solution by 
"madrobby" but that does not work because Rails does not respond the 
ajax call while processing a function.

Thanks for the answer,

Roland

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You need to use a multithreaded web server, not Webrick. Lighttpd should do.

-Jonathan

On 6/26/06, Roland Mai <roland.mai@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Actually, I did implement before reading this blog the solution by
> "madrobby" but that does not work because Rails does not respond
the
> ajax call while processing a function.
>

Thanks a bunch Jonathan. It worked fine. It''s a great resource to have 
such functionality.

Roland

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