Deferred/async task with Rails

Question

I have an action in which I send a request to a web service. The web service takes FOREVER to respond and my users are waiting ages to get a response back from us.

The web page that I display to the user is NOT dependent upon the response from the web service. I'd like my request to the web service to be deferred/asynchronous so that my users don't have to wait for the roundtrip to the web service.

What should I do? What's the best way to handle this?

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Check out https://github.com/defunkt/resque. It's a delayed job library for doing exactly what you need. Built by one of the Github founders and a lot of people are known to use it.

An alternative would be https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job