On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:43:34 -0700 "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We recently ran into exactly this issue. Some rails requests were making > external requests that were taking 5 minutes (networking issues out of our > control). Now that's a design flaw. If you're expecting the UI user to wait for a backend request that takes 5 minutes then you need to redesign the workflow and interface. Do it like asynchronous email where the use "sends a request", "awaits a reply", "reads the reply", and doesn't deal with the backend processing chain of events. If done right, you'll even get a performance boost and you can distribute the load of these requests out to other servers. It's also a model most users are familiar with from SMTP processing. -- Zed A. Shaw - Hate: http://savingtheinternetwithhate.com/ - Good: http://www.zedshaw.com/ - Evil: http://yearofevil.com/ _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
