[Rails] Re: Question about RoR solution

On Jan 30, 10:58 am, heatsnake <heatsn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a limited exposure to RoR, and also I have a sort of specific use task
> I need to do with a small number of people.  Essentially, I have a file that
> is constantly being written to on my computer (OS X), I would like to have
> something similar to tail -f, except it sends line by line to a web server.
> And at this point it's mostly numbers as raw data, and I would like to
> display various statistics live on a webpage that a group of us could get
> constant updates.  I should clarify that I would like everyone to be able to
> first go to this web server, and through that interface each user can select
> the file that exists on their personal machines and from there the data is
> being sent to the server live.

As described, what you're looking for isn't possible with a plain web
application - both the persistence and the local file access are hard
to achieve. Depending on how often the file is written to, have you
thought about looking at something like Dropbox to handle the
synchronization?

--Matt Jones

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