How to change default request time out on Heroku?

Question

My app is built on Rails and my production server is on Heroku.

My application is mostly used for file upload and file processing and it takes more than 50 seconds f

Answer 1

You should upload your large files directly to Amazon S3 or similar and then process the file using a Heroku background worker. Typically, your web page will use some sort of polling (usually an AJAX request) to see when the processing has finished and update the front end.