MbuguaMwaura / ye-ole-chatterbox

A live chatting application that allows real time messaging

Ye Ole Chatterbox

Ye Ole Chatterbox is a chatting application without real time chat yet...

To get started:

This application assumes that bundler, npm, ruby, rails, and postgresql is installed

bundle install
rails db:create db:migrate db:seed
npm install --prefix client

Currently Deployed at:

• YeOleChatterBox
  • Currently live chat does not work in production due to the removal of redis

Ruby Version:

• 2.7.4

Side Notes:

• Need to figure out how to have live chat working in both production and development

  • currently only works in development
  • If I were to add the localhost websocket url to Cable.createConsumer(WURL)
    • The live chat would only work in development
  • If I were to not place an argument to Cable.createConsumer()
    • The live chat would only work in the build or production of this application
  • Somehow need to have some kind of conditional to output a specific websocket url depending on the environment

• Redis has discontinued their add-on with Heroku

  • need to remove redis from production cable.yml and replace with something else
  • need to find a different add-on that allows live chat

Future Feature Implementations:

• Action Cable
  • Live memberhship join/leave
    • chatroom will be notified of join/leave
  • Current members online
• User created chatrooms
  • creator is admin
  • join by password
  • live feed of created chatrooms
• Phone view
  • need to change how chatroom is rendered
  • need to change how welcome image renders when logged in

Deployment Instructions

System Dependencies:

Configuration