As I was the one who cried "sunshowers!" out loud when he shared this idea, might as well share it here too
http://rainbows.rubyforge.org/sunshowers/ Last I checked the example wouldn't work. But that was long ago. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:24 PM, James Sadler <freshto...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd be more than happy to hack on this with you. > > I think a module that supports a event-driven data channel that tries > to connect using Websockets and gracefully degrades to Flash or AJAX > polling would be awesome. I have a pet project (slowly) brewing that > could make use of this. > > On 16 March 2010 14:15, David Lee <deathtoallfanat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ok this time for sures! >> >> I've been meaning for a while now to put together a mini-framework for >> handling WebSockets (if supported) or flash XMLSocket (if not) connections >> in a uniform way, so you can write your client / server code once and have >> the transport be the "best available" without dicking around. >> The idea would be you write a module filling in a few methods, which >> describes your server behaviour; the transport-specific stuff gets mixed in >> by the (EventMachine, probably?) library. Then on your client a jquery event >> gets triggered when (json) data is received, which passes the json packet >> into the handler, so you can eg set up a listener for you controller and >> another for handling UI changes, and you have a unified way to send a json >> packet to the server. >> The server can tell from the initial connection 'headers' whether it's >> dealing with WS or flash, and behave appropriately from then on. >> Not sure if we'd be likely to finish this in one sitting though, so I'm >> happy to work on anything tangentially related - maybe using sunshowers, or >> otherwise doing something interesting w/ rack or rabbitmq if there are no >> takers for playing with websockets. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- http://crazyhollywood.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
