/tags/plugin/ Recent content in plugin on chrismoos Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2020 Chris Moos Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:14:27 +0000 /2010/02/09/ajaxtask-a-rails-plugin-for-managing-background-tasks/ Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:14:27 +0000 /2010/02/09/ajaxtask-a-rails-plugin-for-managing-background-tasks/ SOAP, Background Tasks, and AJAX Recently in Rails I’ve been interacting with various SOAP services and running them in the background with Workling. I needed to relay the SOAP response to the client’s web browser, so I decided to use AJAX to poll the status of my background tasks. This is great if you have < 30 second background tasks running, but don’t want to block a user (and a request).