Hi, First, I am new to rails. I have written a Ruby script to test some perf issues in socket calls. The Ruby code spins up some server threads listening on localhost, and then starts a client on the main thread, and measures the performance. (note, this is on Windows). My primary goal is to get this perf data into a nice format, and secondary goal is to: * execute the scripts from a rails application * feeding it parameters * ***getting feedback while executing*** (it takes minutes to complete) * report the perf numbers back to a page So, because the servers report info, and they are on separate threads, I thought I would use a DB to dump the data into (instead of dealing with synchronization and merging issues of passing data between threads). My script currently prints info to STDOUT as it progresses. I am not sure the best way to approach feedback to the rails app here. As well, I would like to be able to cancel the script as well. So, my questions are: 1. What are some ways I can run this ruby script and get real time feedback from it, updating a webpage with that info. I am not looking for "use ajax" but maybe some specific examples out there that do things like this. 2. And how would I go about canceling it. Pointers to sites/examples with code would be great. Or even pointers to keywords to search for would be helpful. Thanks for your help.