Fork a process and send data to it inside Rails
- by taro
I'm making a Rails application.
In the one action I need to spawn a long running process.
This is not a problem. I can fork new process using spawn gem or some other.
But some time after process has been spawned,
user must be able to pass additional data to that process.
Sure, I can fork process which will listen a UNIX socket,
store socket address in the HTTP session and
communicate with that process using drb protocol when user will require to pass new data to process. But I think it is not best solution and it will be a problem to deploy an application to the hosting.
What is the easy way to do that?
