Cheers for the reply, the intention was to use a custom handler to bypass rails for just this one action. I'm currently using a poll, and am looking into the possibility of keeping the connection open instead. There will only be a maximum of 15 connections open at any one time - would this still be limited by ruby file descriptor limit?
I've managed to get mongrel handler almost doing what I want but not quite - I can't tell mongrel to flush data down the socket at the moment, is there a way to go about this. I've had a look at http://adam.blogs.bitscribe.net/2007/05/08/comet-with-rails-mongrel/ but can't get this approach to work since it seems to depend on a non existant HTTPResponse.flush method. Thanks Jeremy On 23 Nov 2007, at 22:23, Zed A. Shaw 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 > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
