From: Lloyd Zusman Date: 2006-06-08T07:05:58+09:00 Subject: Re: how do I impose a method call delay? Jason Sallis writes: > More food for thought. I'm going to collect some more information > around the desired usage and make a call on design. thanks again to > everyone for ideas! Well, recall that Ara T. Howard's methodology will indeed ensure that no more than one call every 30 seconds will get made to the web server, as long as all of the calls are made within a single instance of the Ruby interpreter. Since you already said that this is the way your application will run, then Mr. Howard's procedure already solves your problem. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com God bless you.