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Ruby persistent chat

Can anyone recommend a persistent chat plugin for Rails? I'm looking for something close to the persistent chat that is part of etherpad. Juggernaut looks like a possible candidate, but I would like to avoid Flash if I could.

Cheers

Solution

  • Checkout

    http://railscasts.com/episodes/260-messaging-with-faye

    Basically you need Socket here (or some imitation). You can use:

    • Ajax polling
    • Flash socket
    • HTML socket

    In Rails there is a juggernaut gem wich is NOT A FLASH.

    Also Socket.IO is very interesting project.