comp.lang.ruby

ashishwave

7/4/2006 2:35:00 PM

i can only say, that (nothing related to ruby) you can find its example
in webmin (which is written in perl), which has one module which does
exactly that
bye :-)
Ashish Ranjan
ashishwave@yahoo.com

Erich Lin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am relatively new to rails as well as ruby. Does anyone know how you
> would go about simulating a shell in a web app. For example if i type
> blah.exe, which prints "hi" to standard out every 10 seconds, I will
> have the browser printing that hi every 10 seconds.
>
> Essentially, I will want to expand that to multiple windows (using the
> prototype window class http://prototype-window.xi...) all
> running things similar to blah.exe, updating their pages through AJAX.
> However, I do not know how to do it with just one window right now.
>
> If anyone can just tell me how to do it with just one browser view,
> that will be of much help.
>
> thank you