How to run Sinatra job in background?

Question

When responding to a request, is it possible to send the response and then continue processing?

Or do you need to run a background process? What is the simplest solution?

Sinatra app on Heroku, Ruby 1.9.3.

Answer 1

You can have another thread running, see for example:

http://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2011/11/ruby-sinatra-web-apps-with-background.html