Rails in Realtime, Part 2

[marcamillion]

Love this.

This is actually quite timely for me. An app I am trying to build, involves a lot of real-time stuff and have been debating whether or not I should go to a client-side MVC. I am not too gung-ho on doing it, largely because at the core a lot of the functionality of the app is simple CRUD stuff. Then just a matter of updating elements of the app in real time.

Is there a gem for Socket.IO?

[kellysutton]

Yes. https://github.com/lyondhill/socket.io-ruby-client

[ludicast]

Use sockjs instead of socket.io :). There is a rails gem for it, or you could use ruby on top of vert.x which also supports sockjs.

[mje]

Great work Kelly. How much browser pain have you all had with data-attributes?

[kellysutton]

So far, no browser pain at all with the data-attributes.

When dealing with numbers, you will often find yourself making many calls to parseInt(). Other than that, it's smooth sailing.

[marcamillion]

Where is your production app hosted? Heroku? AWS? Your own colo box?

[kellysutton]

We use Slicehost.