Moved work into thread to repsond quickly

app/controllers/qbo_controller.rb

@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ class QboController < ApplicationController
     
     # proceed if the request is good
     if hash.eql? signature
+      Thread.new do
         if request.headers['content-type'] == 'application/json'
           data = JSON.parse(data)
         else
@@ -123,6 +124,10 @@ class QboController < ApplicationController
         # Record that last time we updated
         Qbo.update_time_stamp
 
+      end
+      ActiveRecord::Base.connection.close
+    end
+      
       # The webhook doesn't require a response but let's make sure we don't send anything
       render :nothing => true, status: 200
     else