convore.json/groups/rails/mjpeg-streaming-from-rails/messages.json

[{"user_id": 1648, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19574, "date_created": 1302850054.741818, "message": "I'd investigate Goliath", "group_id": 447, "id": 696996}, {"user_id": 7794, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19574, "date_created": 1302849239.9931991, "message": "I am trying to create a stream of JPEG images to display in the browser.  it's pretty simple outlined here: http://www.jpegcameras.com/  under Motion JPEG formats.  I've found plenty of examples of how to do this in other languages and frameworks, but how would I do this in rails?  How can I write part of the response, send it, and then after a minute or two send more data?  Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace with boundaries make it possible to do so within the HTTP spec, but I can't figure out how to make rails do it.", "group_id": 447, "id": 696806}, {"user_id": 1648, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19574, "date_created": 1302850020.5266769, "message": "sending data multiple times is bending the Rack protocol rules a bit, so I'm not sure it's possible / a good idea to do in Rails", "group_id": 447, "id": 696995}, {"user_id": 7794, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19574, "date_created": 1302851846.322876, "message": "I'm making some headway with self.response =  proc {  |response,output|  output.write(\"something\\n\");  sleep 2;     output.write(\"something else\");}", "group_id": 447, "id": 697267}, {"user_id": 7794, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19574, "date_created": 1302851886.5653501, "message": "with webbrick it doesn't do anything special, but with mongrel, curl at least gets the first \"something\" and then waits 2 seconds for the other \"something else\"", "group_id": 447, "id": 697270}, {"user_id": 7794, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19574, "date_created": 1302851893.854254, "message": "but I can't get a web browser to recognize it", "group_id": 447, "id": 697271}, {"user_id": 7794, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19574, "date_created": 1302855607.2812829, "message": "So for the records sake, I got it working.  between my boundaries, I needed to specify content type and the newlines needed to be just right.  One problem here is that if the connection dies for any reason, rails will hang.", "group_id": 447, "id": 697856}]