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The Rails Way
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The Rails Way

by Obie Fernandez
November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
18h 44m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 22. Background Processing

Waiting for railsapplication.com...

—The status bar of your user’s web browser

On the web, your users find out that your application is working at exactly one time—when your program responds to a request. The classic example of this is credit card processing. Which would you prefer to use: a site that says “Now processing your transaction” alongside a soothing animation, or one that shows a blank page?

In addition to such user experience situations, your application may have requirements that simply cannot be satisfied in a few seconds. Perhaps you run a popular site that allows users to upload video files and share them with others. You’ll need to convert various types of video content into Flash. ...

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