I have a rails application (Rails3 / ruby 1.9.x), and my client wants a chat to be integrated with the application (Ex: like in 'facebook'), So I would like to know what are my options are and what would be the best approach, following are the requirments
1 - Only the logged in users (to the ruby application) should be able to chat with their friends 2 - a simple chat, (no need to pass images, files etc..) 3 - will not be used heavy (like facebook chat)
Following are the options I think I might have
1 - create a chat module (Ex: by using juggernaut), But my concerns are,
will that be a simple implementation
since 'juggernaut', uses flash will that be a drawback
2 - Integrate a 3rdparty open source chat module (ruby)
I'm not sure there are once out there like this.
3 - Integrate a 3rdparty open source chat module (javascript)
I'm not sure there are once out there like this.
I'm not sure how to do authentication and all ;(
could u please help me here :)
thanks in advance
