Process AJAX response with long runing tasks

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Published on 2012-10-20T12:27:34Z Indexed on 2012/10/20 23:01 UTC
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I have long time task in controller action.

I use delayed job for it. (Also in heroku it is good practice for perfomance - dyno must work for small time in each request)

But my client need result of it work and users can wait on that task. It is more clear: no any addition models or records in it, simple view and js...

I think about such way:

  • On client run AJAX with very long timeout (5 min for example)
  • Client make request to server as usual
  • On controller in action1 def start_work (with delay work setup) i need NO any response to client
  • After work performs (delay job finished) i need run new action2 with response to client
  • Client recieve response after about 1-5 min

It is possible?

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