You could log the output you wish to display. I think this would be the best way if using a remote site.
But, if it's a local process and of limited use printing to the console is ok. I wrote a rails program to track my local IP address as it would change at random intervals and have the process print the current IP out to a terminal. On Jan 18, 7:23 pm, David Kahn <d...@structuralartistry.com> wrote: > 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. > > Thanks, > > David -- 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.
