HTTP progressive output / server push

rubyonrails-talk
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Is it possible to override the standard Rails rendering infrastructure for a single controller action, in such a way that I can generated "progressive" HTTP output? That is, the browser can display text as it is generated, rather than Rails buffering the whole page and sending it once at completion?

Here's a trivial example, written as a CGI:

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Should be possible with a custom mongrel handler.

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Should be possible with a custom mongrel handler.

Thank you, that gave me some useful keywords to put into Google :slight_smile:

But if I understand correctly, I would still lose all of Rails routing - I'd just get a raw HTTP request object from Mongrel?

Regards, Brian.