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Just FYI, http://ajaxgist.com http://ajaxgist.com results in a 404. What library/technique did you end up using to make your app asynchronous?

• aarongough 16y ago
  Haha, I got my own domain name wrong! Clearly it's been a long day... Link: http://ajax-gist.com/ http://ajax-gist.com/ In the end I built what was essentially a proof-of-concept asynchronous Rails 3 application. The libraries I used under the hood to get everything async were: * Rack/Fiber-Pool: http://github.com/mperham/rack-fiber_pool http://github.com/mperham/rack-fiber_pool * EM Synchrony: http://github.com/igrigorik/em-synchrony http://github.com/igrigorik/em-synchrony * Eventmachine: http://rubyeventmachine.com/ http://rubyeventmachine.com/ Using Rails for what is essentially a thin proxy is overkill, and I could have gotten better performance with Node or by writing a Rack application directly. But I wanted to take the opportunity to get a handle on what would be involved with doing this in Rails, as not too many people have done it before that I am aware of (and at the time no-one had done it with Rails 3).
  • mcantor 16y ago
    Thanks! It sounds like you definitely blazed a couple of trails. Nicely done! I shall certainly peruse all of this; I appreciate the thorough response.
    • aarongough 16y ago
      No worries! I'm always happy to answer questions via email as well if need be.