On May 21, 2:23 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
> > Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

> > I have no idea how to have the server sit on an unfulfilled Ajax (or any
> > other) request.
>
> Good.  You don't want to.
>
> What you may be looking for is Comet (essentially Ajax over a persistent
> HTTP connection), but that's really hard to do AFAIK.

You probably don't want to do it in rails but it's not too hard -
where I work we wrote a c++ daemon to handle long polling requests,
but there are already things like http://orbited.org/ or 
http://www.ape-project.org/
that handle the heavy lifting

Fred
>
> Best,
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