🌊 Streaming Example

Demonstrates HTTP response streaming with progressive rendering. Shows how Falcon handles long-running streaming responses efficiently, perfect for progress indicators, live logs, or real-time data feeds.

🎵 Try the Streaming Demo

Click the button below to start the streaming "99 Bottles of Beer" countdown. Notice how the text appears progressively in real-time!

🔧 Technical Implementation

• Streaming Response: Uses Rack::Response with a proc body for streaming.
• Progressive Rendering: Browser starts rendering immediately with chunked transfer encoding.
• Non-blocking: Falcon handles streaming without blocking other requests.
• Buffer Control: Includes initial buffer padding to trigger browser rendering.

📋 Key Files

• app/controllers/streaming_controller.rb - StreamingController - HTTP streaming implementation
• app/views/streaming/index.html.erb - streaming/index.html.erb - Documentation page

🚀 Performance Benefits

Traditional Ruby web servers struggle with long-running requests that block worker processes. Falcon's async architecture allows multiple streaming responses simultaneously without resource exhaustion.

💡 Use Cases

• Progress Indicators: Long-running task progress.
• Live Logs: Real-time log streaming.
• Data Exports: Large CSV/JSON file generation.
• Live Updates: Status updates during processing.