http://mcwong.disqus.com/enTue, 31 Aug 2010 02:23:03 -0000http://www.themcwongs.com/mcblog/2008/05/scala-lift-off-static-companio.html#comment-73336957<p>what about parallel python??</p>GottamTue, 31 Aug 2010 02:23:03 -0000http://www.themcwongs.com/mcblog/2008/05/scala-lift-off-static-companio.html#comment-456517<p>Thanks Randal, that's another language (and framework) that's been in my queue for a while. I'll poke around a bit.</p><p>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.</p>mccvTue, 13 May 2008 11:59:55 -0000http://www.themcwongs.com/mcblog/2008/05/scala-lift-off-static-companio.html#comment-455641<p>Also look at Seaside (<a href="http://seaside.st" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://seaside.st">http://seaside.st</a>), 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.</p>Randal L. SchwartzTue, 13 May 2008 09:41:09 -0000