Thank you for the reply. I will do some reading on Metal and I see there's a railscast on the subject too. It won't be too "heavy" task as the file will be approx. 17-20 MB
Thanks again. JohnM Robert Walker wrote: > John Mcleod wrote: >> My project consists of a "Project" database and periodic imports (new >> data) to the database. This import file will be a .csv file and it'll be >> necessary to compare the entire database for similar titles and project >> managers and then import the new data to the database. (Nice project for >> a newbie, uh?) > > This is just a suggestion, but you might look into separating this > import out to a separate "daemon" process. Maybe just a simple Rack > application or possibly use Rails Metal. The goal, of course, being to > offload this "heavy" task as to not interfere with normal request > processing in your main Rails application. > > I also think I would try to skip ActiveRecord altogether for this task. > Unless you gain significant benefit by going through ActiveRecord. > > Just some things to consider. Good luck and welcome to the Rails > community. -- 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
