Stateful Ruby on Rails?

Rails
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I’ve done developing in several different web languages now. I’ve come
across a problem which might entail some background processing. One of
the things that really excited me about Java was the ability to create
servlets. Small little applications you write that are running in the
background and have a get() and post() function that your program
responds to. This would allow me to use threading in my web
applications. It also allows me to maintain some data in memory, rather
than pull it from the disk with every request.

Is there something equivalent available for RoR?

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Benjamin Waldher wrote:

Is there something equivalent available for RoR?

Store intermediate data in the database, and store their ID in your
session[].
Don’t store whole objects in the session (though it lets you think you
can),
because that doesn’t scale very well.

If you really really reeeeally need to multitask, get backgroundrb. But
try real
hard to timeslice your activity up instead, using a timer.

Also look at the cron system!

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Phlip