Chris, A simple in-place upgrade to you system would be to use long-polling instead of traditional polling. This would give you near real-time input response and not the complexity of a web socket solution. It's hard to get a true real time system using traditional request/response lifecycle (rails) unless you have some type of evented server a la node, event machine. Also, I'm pretty sure the planning center solution you posted will (the after_commit) callback will only work in a single-threaded environment.
Unless you really want to go w/ web sockets, I would suggest MessageBus (the messaging system used in Discuss) and long polling. Has worked great for me. — Thanks, Alex Egg 켜짐 2015년 3월 13일 에서 오후 5:58:16, Chris McCann ([email protected]) 작성됨: I'm trying to put together a design for showing realtime data updates in a Rails app in response to calls to an API from mobile devices. We recently released an Android and iOS version of our first app, Vor Vision, which allows people to scan images that have an invisible code embedded in them. Think "invisible QR code", only without the ugly. You can check it out here: vorvision.com I've built a Rails backend app that hosts the API and allows a user to see scans of their images in realtime. Currently I just do simple Ajax polling but I want to significantly improve the app via a websockets-type updating system. When a mobile user scans an image, the owner of that image, if they are looking at the dashboard at that moment, should see the scan count for that image increment, along with the geolocation of the latest scan, possibly with a little highlighting or other chrome to call the user's attention to the update. I haven't used React.js, Angular.js or any of the other client-side JS frameworks, but one of these seems like a good fit for elegantly updating the client side data elements. The Flux-style architecture (from Facebook) seems possibly useful, if it's not overkill. Using server sent events (SSE) or websockets (via Pusher) seems like a good fit for the server side. Our local Planning Center Online published this: http://developers.planningcenteronline.com/2014/09/23/live-updating-rails-with-react.js-and-pusher.html Has anyone else done this or something similar? If so, what technology stack did you use? Got any pointers for me? Thanks all, Chris -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
