jmmastey / action-cable-example

Chatty: The Rails 5 + Action Cable Example App

This is a really simple chatting app to demonstrate one implementation of Action Cable in a Rails 5 app. Users can sign up/log in with a username and create a chatroom or choose from an existing one to start real-time messaging.

For a walk-through of this application, and to learn more about Action Cable (it's awesome, btw), you can check out [my article on the Heroku blog](coming soon!). You can view my deployment of this application here, or you can use the button below to deploy your own version (you'll need a Heroku account for that).

Running Locally

You'll need:

• Ruby 2.3.0
• Postgres
• Redis

Then, once you clone down this repo:

• bundle install
• rake db:create; rake db:migrate

And you're all set.