simulation of multiple shells

[Erich Lin]

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.xilinus.com/) 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

 

[ashishwave]

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
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