From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2004-09-15T21:18:07+09:00
Subject: Re: web-based progress bar

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:43:20 +0900, trans.  (T. Onoma)
<transami@runbox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 14 September 2004 11:18 pm, Bill Guindon wrote:
> > Trying to display output from a ruby script that has a command line
> > interface with a progress bar.
> >
> > I'd like to convert that progress bar to something web-based using
> > javascript or dhtml.  Just wondering if anyone has anything like that
> > already.
> >
> > On the Ruby side, I've found a ton of text and GUI progress bars, but
> > none that have a web interface.  Did I miss a gem somewhere?
> >
> > thx in advance.
> 
> give you a fiver if you can do a smooth one of those in pure ruby ;)
> 
> ....
> 
> in other words, you will probably need an additional tool, like javascript at
> he very least.
> 
> But buddy, what I wouldn't give to script my browser in ruby instead of js!

 Yeah, unfortunately it seems to be the only way to do anything like this.  

I was really hoping that one of the many progress bars had a web
output, but I'll keep searching for one that's easy to hook into (easy
for somebody that's JS challenged so to speak).



-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)