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This blog is about startups, blogging, Ruby On Rails, virtualization and cloud computing, photography, customer service, marketing, ux and design, git, and lots more.

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I'm the founder of Planypus, the place to share your plans!

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Long running Threads in Rails and metaprogramming fun

Disclaimer: This post contains evil (but highly fun!) code. Proceed at your own peril…
I was recently designing an application that needed to execute some long running requests against an external host. If you’ve ever tried doing something like this in Rails, you’ll find your mongrels will block up waiting for the request to complete, bringing [...]