From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2005-04-09T22:24:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Forcing FCGI headers

> Without having FastCGI time out on me?

Basically, there's no way to do this that I know of. What you can do, 
though, is to simply increase the FastCGI timeout. The default is a 
meager 30 seconds. Way too low for a bunch of applications, including 
Basecamp. We use 600 seconds (to allow for file uploads which are 
shuttled on to the users on FTP server).

Alternatively, you can have your action trigger an external service of 
some sorts that complete the computation asynchronously. Then you could 
have some other way of alerting the users, like using Ajax (and 
specifically periodically_call_remote which is in beta gems/SVN) to 
check the status of the operation and report success when its done.
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