On May 7, 3:35 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > Ralph Shnelvar wrote: > > My fundamental lack understanding of Rails and the architecture of the > > 'Net wil be demonstrated by the following question: > > > The following is a contrived example: > > > Assume I have several users looking at (identical) screens. Say, there > > is some slowly changing stock market data that they are all looking at. > > The price of the stock changes, say, once every minute. > > > Assume that a Rails application detects a change to the price and wants > > to push the change out to the users without the users needing to do > > anything? How does one make that happen? > > One doesn't, at least not without using Flash, Java, or Comet. Web > technologies don't do push. >
or Web Sockets soon (trunk builds of Firefox & Google chrome support this I believe) Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
