Hello friends -
I have a rails app that uses JSON to send requests to another server.
That
server processes the request and sends a JSON response back to the rails
app.
At first I was sending the requests using AJAX but the requests may take
up
to 30 seconds, and users double-submitted, reloaded, etc. So, I was
thinking
that upon submitting a request, I could then have rails forward to a
“Please
wait while we are processing your request” page. From there, rails will
send
the request and wait for a response. When the response is received (or a
timeout of 45 seconds is reached), I can redirect appropriately to the
result page.
My question is, I am not sure how to achieve this effect of having a
“Please
wait” page while asynchronously checking another server for a result.
Does
anyone have any tutorials/advice/links on how to achieve this?
Alternatively, I have seen (using prototype or jquery) sites where when
you
press the submit button, the screen greys out and a window is tiled on
top
informing the user that the request is being processed. Is it possible
to
utilize this method using ajax?
Thanks,
Jin