Try doing the sleep in the `response.start {|head, out| ... }` block,
and call #flush on `out`.On 11/26/07, Jeremy Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
