Rails in Realtime, Part 2

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by kellysutton • 14 years ago

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Love this.

This is actually quite timely for me. An app I am trying to build, involves a lot of real-time stuff and have been debating whether or not I should go to a client-side MVC. I am not too gung-ho on doing it, largely because at the core a lot of the functionality of the app is simple CRUD stuff. Then just a matter of updating elements of the app in real time.

Is there a gem for Socket.IO?

kellysutton4• 14 years ago

Yes. https://github.com/lyondhill/socket.io-ruby-client

marcamillion3• 14 years ago

Is this what you guys used, or did you use the regular client in some other way?

ludicast• 14 years ago

Use sockjs instead of socket.io :). There is a rails gem for it, or you could use ruby on top of vert.x which also supports sockjs.

mje2• 14 years ago

Great work Kelly. How much browser pain have you all had with data-attributes?

kellysutton4• 14 years ago

So far, no browser pain at all with the data-attributes.

When dealing with numbers, you will often find yourself making many calls to parseInt(). Other than that, it's smooth sailing.

mje2• 14 years ago

Great thanks. So cool to see what you have done since the days at AutomaticDuck.

marcamillion3• 14 years ago

Where is your production app hosted? Heroku? AWS? Your own colo box?

kellysutton4• 14 years ago

We use Slicehost.

Rails in Realtime, Part 2

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