Recently, I've penned a couple of articles on building a chat application with Rails (Mini-Chat with Rails and Realtime Mini-Chat with Rails and Faye - check out the working demo here). In those articles, I explained how to build a simple mini-chat application and make it truly asynchronous using two alternatives: AJAX polling (less preferred) and Web Sockets.
One of the readers noted in the comments that Web Sockets could be replaced with HTML5 Server-Sent Events, so I decided to research the topic. Thus, this article came to life :).
Continue reading %Mini-chat with Rails and Server-Sent Events%
by Ilya Bodrov via SitePoint
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