Rails 4 and ActionCable

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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.

fayewebsocket gem you can use https://github.com/faye/faye-websocket-ruby — Rajarshi Das, Mar 21 '16 at 15:57

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '16 at 16:18

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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

answered Mar 21 '16 at 16:18

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It took me 2 days to figuring it out how faye works thanks – DenicioCode Mar 23 '16 at 21:24

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 29 '16 at 08:33

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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/

edited Mar 29 '16 at 08:33

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answered Mar 21 '16 at 16:36

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Worth noting that trying to install actioncable 5.0.0.1 on Rails 4 is not possible, as it depends on actionpack 5.0.0.1, which seems to depend on Rails 5. – steel Oct 12 '16 at 19:51

Rails 4 and ActionCable

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