[Backgroundrb-devel] Progress update for non-JavaScript users

[Mark Somerville]

Hi there,

I'm running BackgrounDRb for importing some large files into our system. It's 
very nice and we're able to use a simple JavaScript call to periodically 
provide progress messages to the user and, ultimately, success or failure 
messages.

How are people relaying progress and/or results messages back to users who 
don't have JavaScript enabled?

Pretty much the only solution I can think of is to, on each request, check if 
the current user has an import going on and, if so, fetch the status and 
display it somewhere. Is this how most people are doing it? Or am I missing 
something obvious? Any thoughts appreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Mark