Chat Engine is a lightweight rails engine that heavily uses jQuery and memcached to implement a very simple group chat room.
Chat Engine has just been ported to rails 2.3, and its original design striped.
- You must enter a nickname to be part of the chat room.
- All logged in users are shown in the user list
- Lines in the chat that mention a users nickname are highlighted.
- Inactivity timer will logout users from the client side.
- rake task to logout users whose browsers do not allow ajax requests in the unload event.
- The ability to mute specific users (from script/console). Muted users will see their own messages, but no one else will.
install chat-engine
./script/plugin install git://github.com/amiel/chat-engine.git
copy assets
rake chat:sync
include assets, don’t forget jquery
<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'chat' %>
<%= javascript_include_tag 'jquery-x.x.x.js', 'auto_scroll', 'chat' %>
use the chat_overlay partial
<%= render :partial => 'chats/chat_overlay' %>
thats it! it will work with memory_store, but is not persistent across mongrels. User mem_cached_store for best results.
For an example, check out http://github.com/amiel/chat-engine-example
This chat was originally written for Tatango.TV (http//tatango.tv).