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...rocesses like fcgi''s or mongrels. This MiddleMan runs in a drb(distributed ruby) process that is separate from the rails process. This allows for all backends to have one place to store data or launch jobs from. You can see the proof of concept screencasts here: http://brainspl.at/drb_progress.mov http://brainspl.at/drb_ajax_tail.mov And you can download the proof of concept rails app and run it yourself from here: http://opensvn.csie.org/ezra/rails/plugins/backgroundrb/ I''m looking for some folks to play with this and give feedback so I can improve on it. So I apprecia...

Hi Im uploading a file to my rails app, i''s usually a large file, 5-50mb. Once the file has been uploaded it must be parsed and processed, this can take a very long time, 1-20mins. The problem is that most of the time my browser timeouts. Im not really sure how to solve it. One idea is that i have a script run constantly on the server that checks for uploaded files in a

Hey all, I need to launce a rather lengthy process from a small Rails application. It''s the sort of thing (sending out an email newsletter) that would need to be launched from a browser window, but the browser doesn''t need to stick around to see it through. I played around with Thread.new, but I think, based on limited testing, that the threads need to complete before the view