Even simpler. Use ruby 'fork' method. Example: #show time now puts Time.now fork do #long running process `sleep 20;curl -O www.somesite.com/bigfile.tgz` end #this time is nearly same as when we started, no delay puts Time.now
On Sep 27, 4:59 pm, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 17:48 +0200, Max Williams wrote: > > This is probably a general ruby question: in one of my models i need to > > make loads (up to 600 or so) of system calls with the curl command. > > It's a fire-and-forget kind of deal - i don't care, at that particular > > moment, whether the calls were successful or not and i certainly don't > > want to keep the user waiting for the html responses to come back. > > > Is it possible, with a call to 'system' (or some other method) to carry > > on without waiting for the results? > > ---- > backgroundrb > > Craig --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
