David Kahn wrote in post #975899: > I have a long running process for an internal Rails 3 app. In a certain > case > I iterate over and process thousands + records which takes awhile. I > want to > output something like the detail of which record is being processed out > to > the user, to show that the process is in progress and not hung. This app > is > not about not keeping the user from waiting but to keep them in the > loop, > excuse the pun. > > So for example I have an array.each method which is handling these many > records. Anyone have an idea how I could send messages out of this loop > while it is in progress? If I was just writing a console app I would use > 'puts' or 'print'... so that I would see these messages in real time on > the > console. Any way to do anything similar on the web? I know on the ui > side I > would have to do some ajax in a loop to get the updates. Thinking aloud, > I > could have this method output to a db table which the ajax could > query... > kind of yucky. > > Just curious if there would be any easy way to do this before I resort > to a > simple spinner.
A spinner would be easiest (because from the DOM perspective, it's completely static!), but you could also use PeriodicUpdater or something similar to write messages into the DOM. > > Thanks, > > David Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
