Streaming data from Sinatra/Rack application

Question

I am trying to stream textual data (XML/JSON) from a Ruby (1.9.1p378) Sinatra (1.0) Rack (1.2.1) application. The suggested solutions (e.g. Is there a way to flush html to t

Answer 1

As Colin mentioned, Goliath can stream response data, as well as incoming (large file uploads). There is an example in the repo for streaming data to the client: https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/blob/master/examples/stream.rb

Instead of a timer, you can easily hook up any other data stream to push data to the client. For example, you can connect an AMQP queue, or any other message queue directly to Goliath and let it act as an HTTP frontend to that data.