DISQUS

Randal L. Schwartz · 1 year ago

Also look at Seaside (http://seaside.st), the continuation-based web framework written in portable smalltalk. You could easily create your background tasks within a web hit, and then rendevous with it when the result is done.

mccv · 1 year ago

Thanks Randal, that's another language (and framework) that's been in my queue for a while. I'll poke around a bit.

To clarify though, my issues with rails aren't in handling long running jobs initiated by a web request, it's the scheduled stuff that runs outside of the web request chain. In our case we need to check a mailbox frequently, as people can email content to the site. This will dump stuff to the database that people can see in the browser, but it shouldn't ever have to deal with an HTTP request.