Not sure if this is what you're looking for, or even a good solution, but here's something I've been using: a custom Rack middleware that wraps each request in a timeout block, so that an exception will be raised in the app if it takes too long. Here's the code:
http://gist.github.com/12334 To use it, I add "use RequestTimeout, 10" to my rack.rb, and then make sure my exceptions.rb is set up to handle the exception with a nice error message. As I said, it's entirely possible that this solution has some problem I haven't thought of, but so far it seems to be doing what I need. Scott On Sep 22, 9:57 pm, "Ahsan Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that my understanding of deferred actions was muddled: I confused > render_deferred with render_then_call. > I will try out deferred actions to see how the application behaves. > > Thanks all. > > - Ahsan / highandwild > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Kyle Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Take a look at JRuby - it uses real threads, and shouldn't have this > > problem (I think). > > > -Kyle > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Ahsan Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the reply Michael. > > > > Deferred actions are out of the question, since I need to make > > synchronous > > > calls to the Web Service. > > > > EventMachine sounds interesting - I will try it out. > > > > Ahsan / highandwild > > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Michael Klishin > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> 2008/9/17 Ahsan Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> > My question is: is there a better solution with Merb ? Would it better > > >> > to > > >> > write a tiny merb app that provided a rest interface to my app and > > >> > interfaced with the soap web service ? But would Merb, which > > presumably > > >> > uses > > >> > green threads, face the same problem with slow system calls ? > > > >> 1. Deferred actions. > > >> 2. Consider writing EventMachine based soap client that is asyc and > > >> thus does not block. It can use incoming xml/json requests. > > >> The problem with blocking and HTTP is, it hurts every time you try to > > >> do something async via HTTP. > > >> -- > > >> MK --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
