…each method, as explained in our past article Why Rails 4 Live Streaming is a Big Deal . But this API is a bit clunky. The socket hijacking API provides access to a Ruby IO object-like API.
Support for socket hijacking has been added to Phusion Passenger 4 yesterday. The upcoming Phusion Passenger 4 has been covered here , here and here . Phusion Passenger Enterprise customers can already test and enjoy a preview of this feature …
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…progress. Imagine a web application that performs heavy calculations that can take several minutes. Before Live Streaming, you had to split this system up into multiple pages that must respond immediately. The main page would offload the actual work into a background worker, and return a response informing the user that the work is now in progress. The user must poll a status page at a regular interval to lookup the progress of the work. With Live Streaming, you can not only simplify the code …
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