Chat software

rubyonrails-talk
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Hello All,

I want to create an chat software using ruby on rails. It would be just like gtalk only. I mean logged in users can see that who else are online and then they can talk to them. So can you guys tell me that from where can i start this. Tutorials, Examples, Plugins etc ..

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Hemant Bhargava wrote:

Hello All,

I want to create an chat software using ruby on rails. It would be just like gtalk only. I mean logged in users can see that who else are online and then they can talk to them. So can you guys tell me that from where can i start this. Tutorials, Examples, Plugins etc ..

I did something similar in Rails. I don't have tutorial but I have give you idea that can help.

To check how many user are online, I update a user column to see when was his last query. And if the user hasn't made any query for 30sec I consider he is not online anymore.

For the conversation part, I use Ajax to check each X seconds if there's a new message.

Greg

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You can look at juggernaut @ http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org/.

~Naren