zjromani / websocket_chat

Overview

This is a very basic chat app with Action Cable and Turbo Links.

Hosted on Heroku

To Run

bundle install

rails db:setup

rails s

By running rails db:setup you will get your local database seeded with some random users and two ChatRooms.

Open http://localhost:3000/ in your browser and in an incognito browser. Join a ChatRoom to chat and see messages appear in real time.

Sessions are managed with cookies. You will be assigned a random user if cookies['user'] is empty.

ToDo

• Rename Message#message column as it is confusing to do things like message.message
• Add specs for 'Channels' since Rails 6 supports that out of the box now.
• Authentication and basic user management.
• Websockets to handle "someone is typing".
• Websockets to handle people joining and leaving ChatRooms.
• Better Styling.