Forcing a "wait"

Rails
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I have something in my controller which needs to wait 1 or 2 seconds
before doing a “render …”

Is there a means in Ruby where I can make things wait by x seconds or
milliseconds before continuing processing a request? Thanks, RVince

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On Sep 23, 1:27 pm, RVince [email protected] wrote:

I have something in my controller which needs to wait 1 or 2 seconds
before doing a “render …”

well you could call sleep, but you will of course block that mongrel/
passenger instance etc. for the duration of the sleep (assuming rails
in non threadsafe mode)

Fred

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@Frederick:

could you give me a configuration example in which the sleep doesn’t
block the process ? (rails threadsafe mode…)

I try with JRuby/Patched Mongrel/Glassfish gem but the result is evere
the same: ex. 4 concurrent calls with sleep 10 each one I must wait 40
seconds !

The simple example I try is this:

def test
@value = Time.now
sleep 10
end

The full example is this:

rails concurrent
cd concurrent
script/generate controller test test

edit app/controllers/test_controller.rb, modify source as follow:

class TestController < ApplicationController
def test
@value = Time.now
sleep 10
end
end

edit app/views/test/test.html.erb, modify source as follow:

<%= @value %>

edit config/environments/production.rb, uncomment last line as follow:

config.threadsafe!

edit config/environemt.rbm uncomment frameworks line as follow (no
database, resource, mail support for this very simple test…):

config.frameworks -= [ :active_record, :active_resource, :action_mailer
]

Now run:

jruby -S gfrake config

edit config/glassfish.yml, modify config as follow (notice 4 runtime
instances !):

environment: production
jruby-runtime-pool:
initial: 4
min: 4
max: 4

And finally start glassfish gem:

jruby -S glassfish

Now, if you try to call 4 times (concurrently) the following url…

http://localhost:3000/test/test

…you must wait 40 seconds for the 4th response…

I try also with this configuration:

runtimes=>1
runtimes_min=>1
runtimes_max=>1

but I wait 40 seconds…

I try with “patched” mongrel but the time is the same…

Do you have an example of how to configure the system in which 4
concurrent requests with sleep 10 can run in only 10 seconds ?