Have a few cases where it is critically important to flush the output of 
‘render’ immediately.  For example:


 def place_order
  if validate_and_record_order?
   render :text => “OK"
  else
   render :text => “ERROR"
  end
  # DESPERATELY WANT TO FLUSH OUTPUT HERE! 
  # Do lots of talking with banks, send out mailers, etc.
 end


Another wrinkle here is we can’t store the customer’s banking information to 
run as a deferred task.  Ideally we just want to say ‘flush the output’ after 
the ‘if’ block.  Even if there’s an exception after the ‘if’ we still don’t 
want them to get a 500, we want them to get the OK/ERROR.

The problem we have is the people connecting to our app are sometimes timing 
out (they have a short timeout) and think the order failed when in fact it was 
recorded, customer was charged, etc.  I’m a little hesitant about using 
Thread.new, but perhaps that’s the only reasonable way to flush the output 
early?

btw- This is Rails 4.0.x, Apache+Passenger.

Thanks!


Phil

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