[Rails] Re: How to show progress

Sebastian Gräßl sebastian.graessl at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 23:32:22 GMT 2006


Currently form_with_upload_progress works only with apache and fcgi.
Im not sure but i think lighttpd is also supported.

Basti


Am 05.01.2006 um 00:26 schrieb Jake Janovetz:

> Gerry Shaw wrote:
>> I don't think you'll be able to do what you want with rails wrt to  
>> the
>> render a bit, do a bit as rails want to composite the entire page  
>> before
>> sending it to the browser.  If there is a way around this then that
>> would solve both of our problems.
>>
>> Good luck and share your results if find something useful.
>
> Gerry-
>
> Have you seen the "upload_progress" addition that some have done?   
> It is
> actually included in Rails, but I think it comes with a caveat that it
> doesn't work with all browsers / servers.  I read that a modified fcgi
> server was required.
>
> I'm not sure what the current state of this is.  However, it seems  
> to me
> that doing an upload progress bar is actually more difficult to manage
> than step-wise progress.  I'm going to look into this drb thing.
>
> Originally, I thought this would just be a nice feature.  But given  
> that
> my app yields an error after about 30 secs, I'm upgrading this to a
> necessity.
>
>    Jake
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