https://github.com/mikeatlas/realtime-rails

Realtime rails support. See website for documentation:
https://github.com/mikeatlas/realtime-rails

rails realtime ruby socket-io zeromq

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Realtime rails support. See website for documentation:

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mikeatlas/realtime-rails
• Owner: mikeatlas
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-06-27T19:15:35.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-02-06T15:32:56.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-11T10:22:40.891Z (28 days ago)
• Topics: rails, realtime, ruby, socket-io, zeromq
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://mikeatlas.github.io/realtime-rails/
• Size: 80.1 KB
• Stars: 76
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: MIT-LICENSE

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Realtime Support for Rails

====

Note: This gem is a concept piece originally conceived in 2013 and published as a generic open source project in early 2014. 

As of mid-2015, support for performant, native and scalable websockets are available in Rails. See ~~[ActiveCable](https://github.com/rails/actioncable)~~ [ActionCable](https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/master/actioncable), which landed in Rails 5 and will probably be officially released early/mid 2016. 

As such, with [`ActionCable`'s design](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/2/2/Rails-5-0-beta2/), you don't even need a separate pub/sub server (redis) and Node.js running anymore to achieve similar lightweight realtime bi-directional communication with a large number of connected clients to your Rails application. 

Progress marches forward! I presume, if you are stuck and can't upgrade to Rails 5 anytime soon, perhaps this project is lightweight compared to some of the heavier alternatives like Faye or PubNub.

Full documentation is available at:

http://mikeatlas.github.io/realtime-rails/