This app http://vizworkshop.cct.lsu.edu/viz2010
Stored here: http://code.google.com/p/hevw/ Does what you asked. Look into the "lola" function: http://code.google.com/p/hevw/source/browse/models/db.py On Sep 9, 6:05 am, Adi <aditya.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have this test case: > > 1. User registers in app. > 2. App sends him greeting email ("Welcome to so-and-so app"). > 3. App adds his email/name etc to mailing application (like Mailchimp) > for auto-subscribing to newsletter. > > Now user expects steps 1 completion to take him to the next 'default/ > index' page, and we don't want steps 2 and 3 to prevent completion of > step 1. Is there a way to make step 2 and 3 complete independently, in > a way that user's experience is not slowed down? > > Think of it as being equivalent of asynchronous ajax request, which > doesn't wait for response before moving to the next piece of > javascript. > > Any help on this? I know we should not create threads because web2py > handles that for us (read in some older post long long ago). > > -- Adi
