You might find this interesting.
http://adam.blogs.bitscribe.net/2007/05/08/comet-with-rails-mongrel/
http://code.google.com/p/rlogwatch/
-Todd
On Nov 23, 2007 5:23 PM, Zed A. Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:26:04 +0000
> Jeremy Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been doing some experiments with php and if can use something like
> >
> > <?php
> >
> > for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
> > echo "hello world";
> > flush();
> > sleep(10);
> > }
> >
> > ?>
> >
> > to keep a http link open for an arbitrary amount of time and
> > routinely display "hello world" in the browser window.
> >
> > Is is possible to write a mongrel handler to do something similar?
>
> Yep, you could probably write a handler to do that, but probably not a rails
> action without tons of surgery.
>
> However, this will fall down pretty quick once you hit Ruby's 1024 (or less)
> file descriptor limit due to its use of select.
>
> Zed
>
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