Stream Comments with Rails 5 and ActionCable
Rails now comes with WebSockets built in!
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1 min readDec 28, 2015
Scenario
You have a personal blog application that allows readers to leave anonymous comments. You want the comments to appear dynamically. Luckily, Rails 5 Beta comes loaded with WebSockets.
This article assumes you have redis installed.
Conclusion
ActionCable is a really useful tool as WebSockets have grown in popularity and use cases. It makes sense for Rails to establish a convention for generating and using them within the framework. Thanks again to DHH for his work on the examples mentioned above.
Happy coding!
