There's a fairly new idea called Helix that's making waves in the Rust and Ruby communities. This is mainly because the extension allows for C-like extension behavior by leveraging Rust to make Ruby / Rails applications faster.
This is useful for a couple of reasons, but I wanted to check out how everything actually works. As a mutation of their original tutorial on the extension, I decided to see what it would be like to create a "chat bot" of sorts that had the personality of Morrissey (of the Smiths).
Right now, just a simple form that allows you to interface with the chat bot. The page reloads every time you make a query, so extending this to become a client-side chat application would be pretty neat.
- Rails 5.1
- Rust Nightly
If you're rolling with Heroku, this process is fairly straightforward:
- Create the Heroku application -
heroku create - Add the Rust Buildpack (order is important here)
heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/hone/heroku-buildpack-rust - Add the Ruby Buildpack -
heroku buildpacks:add heroku/ruby - Push to your heroku origin -
git push heroku [branch]