From: snacktime <snacktime@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T14:37:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Real project -- general application structure

On 7/13/07, Ricardo Jasinski <rjasinski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So the data collection app stores it in the DB, and the web page just
> > retrieves the latest data
> > from the DB when a user navigates to the page. Piece of cake! 9^)
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> thanks for your input! Yes, it is really almost a piece of cake,
> except that the data displayed on the page must be updated whenever
> new information is sent by one of the sensors (without having to click
> 'refresh' on the web browser).
>
> Of course a periodic page reload could take care of this issue, but I
> believe we can do better than that...  =)
>
>
Have a status table that gets updated whenever an update comes in, and
on the webpage use periodically_call_remote to check the table to see
if there are new updates.  Or you can just do an auto refresh of the
page every so often also.