Thanks all for your responses. I am looking to use Web sockets.

thanks
ravi

On 10-Dec-2012, at 8:06 PM, Ravi Laudya <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks all for your responses. I am looking to use Web sockets.
> 
> 
> thanks
> ravi
> 
> 
> On 09-Dec-2012, at 11:19 PM, Bill Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> The other way is to couple your app with either Faye or Juggernaut.
>> 
>> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Norbert Melzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I the client poll every few seconds via AJAX. There is no other way.
>> 
>> Am 09.12.2012 14:28 schrieb "Ravi Laudya" <[email protected]>:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I am writing an app to stream log files (or any files) on the browser as 
>> they grow. The idea is that the rails app should do a 'tail -f' on the file 
>> and keep sending the data to the browser. I was thinking if there was any 
>> way to achieve this in rails.
>> 
>> Through googling, I came across the 'streaming' support in rails. But, I 
>> didn't get it working. Here is what I tried
>> 
>> class LogsController < ApplicationController
>> 
>>   def index
>>     headers['X-Accel-Buffering'] = 'no'
>>     self.status = 200
>>     self.response_body = Streamer.new
>>   end
>> 
>> end
>> 
>> class Streamer
>>   def each
>>     100000.times do |n|
>>       yield "Streaming...#{n} "
>>       if (n % 1000 == 0)
>>         sleep 1
>>       end
>>     end
>>   end
>> end
>> 
>> The browser time outs waiting for the data.
>> 
>> Can you please let me know how can I achieve this functionality in rails?
>> 
>> 
>> thanks
>> ravi
>> 
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