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DenicioCode
DenicioCode

Reputation: 9336

Rails 4 and ActionCable

I am building a real time chat into a rails 4 application. It seems ActionCable is the tool for this kind of job.

Is it possible to use ActionCable in rails 4 or do I have update to rails 5?

I cannot find any introduction for ActionCable with rails 4.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 5835

Answers (2)

tagCincy
tagCincy

Reputation: 1599

Rails, in and of itself, is just a collection of various Rubygems. ActionCable is just a new gem added to the collection with Rails 5. You can install ActionCable by itself via your Gemfile:

gem 'actioncable', '~> 5.0.0.beta3'

Then just go about setting it up. Here is a decent write up on it:

http://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/rails-5-preview-action-cable/

Upvotes: 8

Vasfed
Vasfed

Reputation: 18444

ActionCable is just a rails-5 way to handle websockets. For current rails there is Faye(https://github.com/faye) with multiple wrappers like private-pub and faye-rails.

Also you do not have to write the websocket handler in ruby at all

Upvotes: 10

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