Hey Ben,
I had the same situation, though not with RMagick.
I made progress bars running inside of active scaffold. But you can
make it work on anything.
Screen cast showing it running and short tutorial are at
http://www.blognow.com.au/q
Screencast:
http://www.blognow.com.au/q/64767/Screen_cast_of_multiple_progress_bar_tracker.html
Regards
Mikel
>
> I''m looking for a way to give the user a progress monitor on large
> image manipulations with RMagick. I first looked at this method -
> http://www.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/imageattrs.html#monitor - to do
> it in a controller action, but since I can''t call multiple renders
in
> an action, I would need to store the progress in the database and call
> another action from javascript to look it up, which seems like
> overkill(although maybe there is a better way I haven''t thought
of?).
> So, I was wondering if it is possible to do it in a more
> straightforward way with backgroundrb?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
