I've seen and understand the :after filter, but I don't even know the terms for what I'm trying to do. I've got a simple app using twilio and highrise logging calls. I'd like to return the twiml response via sinatra BEFORE posting to external API due to latency issues. Any suggestions?
I've seen similar questions but none dealing with ruby/sinatra. Thanks.
The delayed_job gem should do what you need. It allows you to schedule code to be executed in the future, e.g. after the HTTP response has been sent.
DJ is dependant on ActiveRecord (it needs a db table to store the jobs in) but you can get it running on Sinatra too: https://github.com/bmizerany/sinatra-dj