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GMAIL LIKE CHAT APPLICATION IN RUBY ON RAILS

30 Jul 14

jquery (/tags/jquery), rails (/tags/rails), chat (/tags/chat)

In this tutorial, I will guide you on how to implement a Gmail/Facebook like real-time chat application in a Ruby on Rails

application.

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INTRODUCTION

We are all fond of the Gmail and Facebook inline chat modules. About a week ago, I came across a tutorial on how to replicate

hangouts chat (http://css-tricks.com/replicating-google-hangouts-chat/) in pure css and html and this really inspired me. I though

myself, "why not give life to this beautiful Gmail-like chat UI?". With this, I challenged myself to try and come up with a real-time ch

in a Rails application. I wanted to have anear-realtime kind of chat functionality and in my research I found out that the

publish/subscribe model was the most efcient, fast and scalable way to go about this.

As a framework, Rails is not very good at handling asynchronous events and therefore establishing a socket connection to a Rails

application is almost impossible. There are many solutions that are designed to handle this kind of problem. Frameworks such as

Node.js (http://nodejs.org/) with Socket.IO (http://socket.io/), or, if you want to stick with Ruby, Cramp

(https://github.com/lifo/cramp), async_sinatra (https://github.com/raggi/async_sinatra), or Goliath framework (http://postrank-

labs.github.com/goliath/) are all great solutions but it would be super awesome to continue using Rails for our application's logic a

also have the benets of some kind of asynchronous event handling with publishing and subscribing when we need that. To achiev

this, we will use Private Pub Gem (https://github.com/ryanb/private_pub) which is built on top of Faye (http://faye.jcoglan.com/) a

makes it dead simple to publish and subscribe to real-time events in a Rails app.

Check out The Demo (http://railschattyapp.herokuapp.com/) to have a feel of what we will be creating. Create an account on one

separate browser window and on another log in using the default user provided on the login page then try simulating a conversat

between yourself and the "chatty bot".

GETTING STARTED

Were going to add the Instant Messaging feature to an existing Rails application. Below is a screenshot from a simple rails app

(chatty) that uses Devise (https://github.com/plataformatec/devise) to authenticate users. It's current functionality is very basic. O

the home page, we are just looping the list of all users except the currently logged in user.

We want to enable the users of our app to chat with each other. Let's start by modeling up the logic of our chat application. Our lois very simple. A user will have many conversations and a conversation will have many messages. Here is the relationship diagram
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CONVERSATION MODEL

Let's get started by creating the conversation model. A conversation will hold the sender_id and the recipient_id both of which are

instances of a user. The sender_id will hold the id of the user starting the conversation and the recipient_id will hold the id of the

other user.On your terminal

$ rails g model Conversation sender_id:integer recipient_id:integer

It's a good idea to add an index to both sender_id and recipient_id as we will use this elds while searching.

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After migrating the database, lets update our user model. Since we don't have theuser_id column in our conversation table, we mu

explicitly tell rails which foreign key to use.

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class CreateConversations < ActiveRecord::Migration

def change

create_table :conversations do |t|

t.integer :sender_id

t.integer :recipient_id

t.timestamps

end

add_index :conversations, :sender_id

add_index :conversations, :recipient_id

end

end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,

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Next, lets edit our conversationmodel. A conversation will belong to both a sender and a recipient all of which are instances of auser.

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As you can see, our conversation will have many messages. We are then validating uniqueness of the sender_id and passing a scop

of the recipeint_id. What this does is that it ensures that thesender_idand the recipient_id are always unique so that we only have

unique conversations in our application. For instance, a conversation with (sender_id: 1, recipient_id: 2) and another with

(sender_id: 2, and recipient_id: 1) should never occur since the conversation is essentially between the same users.

We have also added two scopes involving and between. The rst scope will help us retrieve all conversations of the currently

logged-in user while the last scope will help us check if a conversation exists between any given two users before we create the

conversation.

MESSAGE MODEL

Now that we have our conversation model, lets proceed and create our message model. Run the following command on your

terminal and run rake db:migrate.

$ rails g model Message body:text conversation:references user:references

Our messages table will have a body, conversation_id, and user_id columns. The conversation_id column will keep track of which

conversation a message belongs to and the user_id column will keep track of the user who sent the message during chat. Adding

some validations

has_many :conversations, :foreign_key => :sender_id

end

class Conversation < ActiveRecord::Base

belongs_to :sender, :foreign_key => :sender_id, class_name: 'User'

belongs_to :recipient, :foreign_key => :recipient_id, class_name: 'User'

has_many :messages, dependent: :destroy

validates_uniqueness_of :sender_id, :scope => :recipient_id

scope :involving, > (user) do

where("conversations.sender_id =? OR conversations.recipient_id =?",user.id,user.id)

end

scope :between, > (sender_id,recipient_id) do

where("(conversations.sender_id = ? AND conversations.recipient_id =?) OR (conversations.sender_id = ? AND

end

end
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LOGIC FLOW

Now that our models are in place, I want to explain the general ow of how the inline chat application will work. On our home pag

we will add a send message button along each user's name. The button will holdtwo data attributes i.e. the id of the current user

and another id of the reciever id. When a user clicks the button, we will send an asynchronous request to our rails app with the

current user's id and the recipient id. If a conversation exists, we return the conversation id immediately, otherwise we create the

conversation and return the id of the newly created conversation.

We will then pick, the conversation_id returned by the server using jQuery. Using this conversation_id, we will then request the

respective show page of that conversation which will have a list of all its associated messages. For instance, if the server returnsconversation_id3, we will request the html page at conversations/3. We will then append this conversation data in our home page

a popup div.

ADDING THE MESSAGE BUTTON

For each user we are displaying on our home page, we associate a send message button with him or her. Thedata-sid attribute wil

hold our current users' id whiledata-rip attribute will hold the recipient's id. We will send this values through an ajax request to o

server which should create a conversation if necessary.

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To keep this tutorial, short I have created most of the jQuery logic in a single le which I will link here. I have tried to make it as

modular as possible and also provide comments on each method so it shouldn't be hard to comprehend what's cooking. Lets creat

le chat.js inside our javascripts folder and paste the contents of chat.js (https://gist.github.com/Joseph-

N/d1413cc5822efa416175#le-chat-js). This le has all the functions we will need when creating chatboxes in our home page an

also communicating with our rails app.

Let's not forget to add this le to our javascript manifest le.

class Message < ActiveRecord::Base

belongs_to :conversation

belongs_to :user

validates_presence_of :body, :conversation_id, :user_id

end

current_user.id, "datarip" => user.id %>
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If using rails 4 and turbolinks, require this le before requiring turbolinks.

//= require chat

In my users.js we'll listen for various events on our home page document and call respective methods inside ourchat.js le

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var ready = function () {

/**

* When the send message link on our home page is clicked

* send an ajax request to our rails app with the sender_id and

* recipient_id

*/

$('.startconversation').click(function (e) {

e.preventDefault();

var sender_id = $(this).data('sid');

var recipient_id = $(this).data('rip');

$.post("/conversations", { sender_id: sender_id, recipient_id: recipient_id }, function (data) {

chatBox.chatWith(data.conversation_id);

});

});

/**

* Used to minimize the chatbox

*/

$(document).on('click', '.toggleChatBox', function (e) {

e.preventDefault();

var id = $(this).data('cid');

chatBox.toggleChatBoxGrowth(id);

});

/**

* Used to close the chatbox

*/

$(document).on('click', '.closeChat', function (e) {

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CREATING CONTROLLERS

We now have our javascript les logic ready all is left is piecing up ourconversations and messages controllers to handle requests

from our javascript le. Let's start by our conversations controller

$ rails g controller conversations

Our conversations controller will have only to actions, thecreate and the show actions.

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/**

* Listen on keypress' in our chat textarea and call the

* chatInputKey in chat.js for inspection

*/

$(document).on('keydown', '.chatboxtextarea', function (event) {


chatBox.checkInputKey(event, $(this), id);

});

/**

* When a conversation link is clicked show up the respective

* conversation chatbox

*/

$('a.conversation').click(function (e) {

e.preventDefault();

var conversation_id = $(this).data('cid');

chatBox.chatWith(conversation_id);

});

}

$(document).ready(ready);

$(document).on("page:load", ready);

class ConversationsController < ApplicationController

before_filter :authenticate_user!

layout false
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You will notice, the layout false directive. This is because we don't want the show view inheriting from application.html layout. We

will be appending this view on our home page.

In the create action, we start off by searching if a conversation exists between thesender_id and recipient_id. Recall our between

scope we dened earlier in our conversation model. If a conversation is found, we return it and assign it to the@conversation

instance variable. If no conversation was found between the two users, we create a new conversation. We then eventually return

json response with theid of the conversation.

Our show action is also pretty standard, after getting the conversation with the specic id, (note this id is sent by our javascript co

in chat.js), we also nd who is receiving the message. We will use the receiver's name as the chatbox title in our chat.

INSTALLING PRIVATE_PUB

It would be nice if we installed private_pub (https://github.com/ryanb/private_pub) at this point as our next set of task, we will be

utilizing functionality offered by the gem. Add private_pub gem in your Gemle and runbundle. Installing it will also install Faye an

its dependencies. We will also include the thingem as we will be using it to serve Faye.

gem 'private_pub'

gem 'thin'

def create

if Conversation.between(params[:sender_id],params[:recipient_id]).present?

@conversation = Conversation.between(params[:sender_id],params[:recipient_id]).first

else

@conversation = Conversation.create!(conversation_params)

end

render json: { conversation_id: @conversation.id }

end

def show

@conversation = Conversation.find(params[:id])

@reciever = interlocutor(@conversation)

@messages = @conversation.messages

@message = Message.new

end

private

def conversation_params

params.permit(:sender_id, :recipient_id)

end

def interlocutor(conversation)

current_user == conversation.recipient ? conversation.sender : conversation.recipient

end

end
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Next up, we need to run the generator provided by private_pub to generate the conguration le and a Rackup le for starting the

Faye server.

rails g private_pub:install

We can now start up that Rack server by running this command on a separate terminal

rackup private_pub.ru -s thin -E production

This command starts up Faye using the Thin server in the production environment which is necessary to get Faye working. The las

step is to add private_pub to the applications JavaScript manifest le.

//= require private_pub

With private_pub installed, we can now proceed to make our rst view that uses private_pubs functionality. This will be the show

view of our conversation's controller

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What stand's out here is the suscribe_to method. Here we subscribe to a channel ( the conversation's path ). We will use this same

path to publish update notications to this channel from our controller. We do this by callingsubscribe_toand passing in the name

of a channel which takes a format of a path. In our case we pass the current conversation's path.

The suscribe_to function is provided by the private_pub javascript we required inside our application.js manifest le. We also noti

that our form will always be submitting via ajax due to theremote option.

Our last controller is the messages controller.

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We only have the create action for the messages controller. We store theconversation's path in the @path instance variable. We

will use this path topublishpush notications to our view. Remember we suscribed to the same url in our conversation's show vie

This will always be unique for any two users in our app.

Our create action will render a javascript template. Let's go ahead and create that. In our messages folder create this le

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before_filter :authenticate_user!

def create

@conversation = Conversation.find(params[:conversation_id])

@message = @conversation.messages.build(message_params)

@message.user_id = current_user.id @message.save!

@path = conversation_path(@conversation)

end

private

def message_params

params.require(:message).permit(:body)

end

end

var id = "";

var chatbox = $("#chatbox_" + id + " .chatboxcontent");

var sender_id = "";

var reciever_id = $('meta[name=userid]').attr("content");

chatbox.append("");
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Here we publish to the same path we suscribed to in our view. We also asign a number to variables from our rails app to variables

our javascript le. You are probably wondering what the following line does?

var reciever_id = $('meta[name=user-id]').attr("content");

We need a way to identity who is the recipient when publishing the notications. A simple way around this is to create a meta tag our application.html layout le that store's the id of the currently logged in user. In the head section of our layout le add

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You will also note that we are rendering amessage partial. We have not created that yet. In our messages folder

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Note, we have used to helper methods self_or_other and message_interlocutor. They both take a message as an argument. Lets go

ahead and dene them. In our messages_helper le

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chatbox.scrollTop(chatbox[0].scrollHeight);

if(sender_id != reciever_id){

chatBox.chatWith(id);

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Notice we don't have yet any stylings for our chat box. Create a lechat.css in our stylesheets folder and paste the contents of

chat.css (https://gist.github.com/Joseph-N/d1413cc5822efa416175#le-chat-css). Let's also add the fon't awesome css in our

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def self_or_other(message)

message.user == current_user ? "self" : "other"

end

def message_interlocutor(message)

message.user == message.conversation.sender ? message.conversation.sender : message.conversation.recipient

end

end

Rails.application.routes.draw do

devise_for :users

authenticated :user do

root 'users#index'

end

unauthenticated :user do

devise_scope :user do get "/" => "devise/sessions#new"

end

end

resources :conversations do

resources :messages

end

end
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TESTING OUR CHAT APP

Here comes the most interesting part of the tutorial. Our application should now be capable of handlingnear-realtimeinstant

messages between any two users. In one browser window, I'm logged in as "Joseph" and in another i'm logged in as "Kevin". As

"Joseph", clicking on Kevin's send message button, creates a new conversation between us and pops up a beautiful chat window. O

my other browser as "Kevin" clicking on Joseph's send message button pops up a similar window and we can now chat instantly!.

Check it out

Chatty

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And that's it for this tutorial. Hope this gives you an overview on how to go about implementing an instant message type chat for

your rails application. Have any questions and or comments? Feel free to use the comments section below. Something not workin

out? feel free to also clone this application on my Github repo (https://github.com/Joseph-N/chatty) and compare.

Happy Hacking!

UPDATE 12/04/2015

For those of you looking to setup your own instance of FAYE server on Heroku, take a look at an example FAYE app

(https://github.com/Hareramrai/fayeserver)

BY JOSEPH NDUNGUI'm a passionate web developer specializing in ruby on rails. This is my notepad where I share code snippets andtutorials of the things I have learnt and amassed over the years in my web development career. When not geeking

out over web development, I'm likely out at the swimming pool or with friends catching a movie. Find me on

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85 COMMENTSTHOMAS QUIROGA06 Aug 14

Huge thanks, it's really a good work!

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SANTHU4611 Aug 14

Hey wonderful tutorial works ne. I need to develop Same functionality for mobile (IOS and

andriod chat using back end as a rails ) rather than web, Please help if u have any idea. Helpful..

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KUMRZZ20 Aug 14

love it, nice to see a relevant and recent app on privatepub: thanks! I was tearing my hair out failin

to get such an app out ... one suggestion though, I think its best to have more than one user setup i

seeds.rb coz otherwise when u start out u can't start chatting(and its not straightforward creating

one using the base CRUD on the app) Also think it'll be nice to add basic setup instrns such as

bundle install and so on. ... happy to enter a pull etc.


LAWRENCEN04 Sep 14

This is a nice idea man and very clear writing.


ASHISHGOOJAR23 Sep 14

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Hi JOSEPH. Great job done. really ice tutorial. I tried to use the codes in my app and it was

working in local machine. But i am unable to make it work once deployed on Heroku. Nothing

happens once I click on "Send Message". Any help??

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ABDUGALIYEV07 Oct 14

Hi man! thank you for this greate tutorial, but a have one question, its works only in root_path

but if i need this work all on app pages? how i can do this? thanks again


TEDMA410 Oct 14I loved the tutorial. I'm trying to use it in my app. How would you place a user's image in using

paperclip?


VITOR TORRES14 Oct 14

I've created conversations controller and show view for this controller but ajax calls still returns :

POST http://localhost:3000/conve... (http://localhost:3000/conversations) 500 (Internal Server

Error)

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ANTHONY LIANG28 Oct 14

Thanks for this awesome tutorial, Joseph! One thing I've been trying to gure out is that current

if one user messages another user, that user isn't alerted to the message unless they open up the

window. How could you alert the recipient of the message by popping up the chat window like in

GChat?


MAHMOUD COUDSI10 Nov 14
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This is really really amazing! I just ran through the steps and it works perfectly on my computer.

However, when I try to use it using Safari on my Iphone, the message is sent to my computer and

the chat window is update but the chat window on Iphone is not updated, I have to reload the

page for the new message to show on iphone. Any idea why could that be? thanks!

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IVAN PETROV19 Nov 14

Amazing guide! Thanks! In chat.js I think it is better to wrap all code after ajax method in `done`

callback.


ENSITUS01 Dec 14Hi Ivan, try in cong/private_pub.yml in development: instead of server: "localhost:3000" server:

"192.168.1.:3000

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RYAN DECKER04 Dec 14

Hey, guys... I'm having a bit of trouble positioning the chatbox in my app. I have a

footer, and whenever I open the box, it goes below the footer and also creates

another footer. So...what do I do? :D And one more thing...has anyone gured out

the way to make the chatbox stay after reload? Thanks.

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CHANDRABHUSHAN YERABATTI10 Dec 14

Thank You Michael Teshome Dinku......I put this

PrivatePub.publish_to("/conversations/#{@conversation}/new",

"alert('#{@message.body (mailto:#{@message.body)}');") in

message_contoller creation action but it doesn't work for me. When I

reload the page then only I'm receiving messages.I'm struggling in this

.Any help? Thanks.

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KEITH HUNNIFORD10 Dec 14

This is awesome work Joseph! Semi related.. I've been looking at Faye / Heroku mix too and then I found Pubnub.com. Have you

ever played with Pubnub? Considering using that for something similar to what you've done.

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YAMINI SHAIK26 Dec 14

Hi Joseph!Im new to ruby on rails. Its fantastic tutorial. It

works only on root level.I need to implement same chat app

for my project using angularjs and rails.I'm unable to return

the json format for conversation controller and messages

controller. Can you please help on this.And I unable to

understand how the routes are working in this app at root

level.Would you please explain me on this. Thanks


RAKESH VARMA29 Dec 14

Is it work with Rails4 with MongoID?


AHMED REZA08 Jan 15

it worked for me but nothing happen when i click on the send message button....i

gives a # in the url...am very new with rails but wanna learn this tutorial plz help..

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AHMED REZA09 Jan 15

Hey Joseph...tnx a lot buddy but i waana use this on a different app....like my

problrm is i have everything working gr8 but i jst wanna know wht link to use in

rgis section of ur lovely tutorial... current_user.id, "data-rip" => user.id %> how to
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change that # and by what in the link to send message line....plz buddy plz help na

plz


AHMED REZA10 Jan 15its showing the following error `couldn't nd le 'private_pub'

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YAMINI SHAIK24 Jan 15

Hi Joseph....Its a fantastic tutorial for chat app.Is it work with

mongoid and rails4?


DAVID CHRIQUI17 Feb 15

Thanks for this great tuto :) A little improvement from chat.js instead of doing a get

request to relative url here : $.get("conversations/" + conversation_id, function (data) {

$('#chatbox_' + conversation_id).html(data); $("#chatbox_" + conversation_id + "

.chatboxcontent").scrollTop($("#chatbox_" + conversation_id + " .chatboxcontent")

[0].scrollHeight); }, "html"); add a "/" just before the conversations resources in order t

be able to access this resources even if you are manipulating your users resources

through the view.


NORMAN SANTIAGO17 Feb 15

Thanks for the great tutorial. I just want to ask how to do this in group. I mean I have group

which is called MyRoom and all of those who are in that room can only see the messages we

of course you have a uesr more than 2.


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Hey It's very helpful, Thanks very much, anyone knows how to show online

users ?


EOV GUILHERME DE CARVALHO FILHO05 Mar 15Help me, I got the error, Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: #chatbox_ [object

Object] anyone seen this?


SURESH KUMAR V10 Mar 15

Thanks for this awesome tutorial, Joseph! I'm trying to add support for anonymous userchat.so some advice would be appreciated.


OE NILAN11 Mar 15

This is really awesome. thanks for the tutorial. My only problem is getting it work on another page

Instead of the send message button using /conversations/# it uses /jobs/conversations/# and give

me a routing error ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [POST]

"/jobs/conversations/2"): when i'm assuming it should just be /conversations/2 Jobs is another

area of my website. I'm assuming the problem for me is in the $.post("/conversations", { sender_id:

sender_id, recipient_id: recipient_id }, function (data) { chatBox.chatWith(data.conversation_id);

line in the users.js le and it's using the directory above it as it's base what do i need to do to get it

to route correctly any help is MUCH appreciated.


COMPLITECH CSPL17 Mar 15

Hey Joseph,nice tutorial. I have integrated this feature in my app and it is working

ne.I want to notify user when message arrives.Right now,if chat box open only

than it will shows conversation.So,is it possible to notify receiver when message

send by sender?

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PRANAV PRASHANT20 Mar 15

I deployed your app on heroku, but found that it works only on http but not over https. Is there a x. Was thinking of adding

facebook and google+ login


TOM GOLDENBERG19 Feb 15

I implemented all of the provided code, but the "message" buttons do nothing

when clicked. If the a href leads to "#", I don't see how to get it to work, and am

not familiar with JQuery. Any suggestions? Thanks!


NICO VANCAMP24 Mar 15

Could someone help me on how to count the number of unread messages and display that in the

your conversations list?


HONZA VOSMIK28 Mar 15

Great tutorial and really helpful to me! One question. How would you make to have

the chat window in same state as it was when you refresh a page? For example, if

one window is opened, another minimized, you refresh the page and it's still the

same. Thank you once again! :)

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DITYA MAJETI09 Apr 15

HI, JOSEPH NDUNGU i have a problem on calling " /conversations"

controller in user.js its is routs to index of conversations controller

hich is not dened. but i changed to /conversations/create and i just

create conversations/create.html.erb but it is showing 404 i dont know

hy popup of message box is not opened
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AULIA SABRIL26 Mar 15

Thanks; great tutorial, Joseph if you don't mind, how can we add video or talk withmicrophone in this chat??

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VAIBHAV KALE08 Apr 15

great tutorial Joseph. Thank you.I am facing some issue here. Once I have setup the

entire code based on what is given here nothing seems to be happening on clicking the

send message link. I am getting the below mentioned error which i copied from the

console. Any suggestion would be of great help. Thanks send jQuery.extend.ajax

jQuery.(anonymous function) chatBox.createChatBox chatBox.chatWith (anonymous

function) re self.reWith done callback


DITYA MAJETI09 Apr 15

HI, JOSEPH NDUNGU i have a problem on calling " /conversations"

controller in user.js its is routs to index of conversations controllerhich is not dened. but i changed to /conversations/create and i just

create conversations/create.html.erb but it is showing 404 i dont know

hy popup of message box is not opened


BEN FORREST11 Apr 15

So useful! Nice one I wondered if anyone managed to get ofine caching of messageworking eg gmail chat when the recipient is ofine it message is stored until they

login


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Hi Joseph, Thank you very much for your very useful blog tutorials. I've successfully

implemented your gmail like chat into my app but I encounter some troubles setting u

faye in a production environment with heroku. I've used this project to get private_pub

Faye running on heroku : github.com/iamnan/heroku_private_pub This is not working

with my project as well as your chat app. Would it be possible to get the code (through

github) you've deployed to heroku in order to get running the Faye server you use ?

Thank you


MUBASHWER SALMAN KHURSHID14 Apr 15

Hi.. i got it working but the messages do not appear real-time.. i have to refresh the whole

page.. and there are no error messages in the console log so I don't know what im doing wrong


01 May 15

do we need UserController, i followed this guide but now am getting error uninitialized constant

UsersController

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PVIJAYROR09 May 15

Thank you working ne... but not 100% useful. Only problem: "if one user messages another use

that user isn't alerted to the message unless they open up the window. How could you alert the

recipient of the message by popping up the chat window like in GChat?"


M-SAKTHIVEL1 May 15

Hi I tried this out, I have a problem here when i post a message am getting template missing

error since we are using create.js.erb but it's looking for html le i don know hw to x this any

one can help me pls.....

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ANNA21 May 15

Hello! Im also having the same problem as MUBASHWER SALMAN KHURSHID (the chat does not update in real-time, but the

sent messages of both parties exist when I refresh the whole webpage). I cloned JOSEPH NDUNGUs exact app from Github, bu

it has the same issue as described above. Clues?


ANNA21 May 15

Otherwise, the url in private_pub does not work. Is this not correct (obviously not, since its not

working for me, but what else should go there): server: "http://localhost:9292/faye/...

(http://localhost:9292/faye/faye)?

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SARAHGUPTA02210 Jul 15

Hi Joseph, Thank you very much for your very useful blog tutorials.I am trying to put "gma

like chat" in my existing code. but i receive error in my web page: Unknown action(The

action 'index' could not be found for ConversationsController) from my Conversations

Controller.rb . i try to put def index but after that i get another error: Template is missingMissing template conversations/index, application/index with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>

[:html, :text, :js, :css, :ics, :csv, :vcf, :png, :jpeg, :gif, :bmp, :tiff, :mpeg, :xml, :rss, :atom, :yaml,

:multipart_form, :url_encoded_form, :json, :pdf, :zip], :variants=>[], :handlers=>[:erb,

:builder, :raw, :ruby, :coffee, :jbuilder]}. Searched in: *

"C:/Users/Arvind/project/book/app/views" *

"c:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.0.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-

3.2.0/app/views" * "c:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.0.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/devise-

3.5.1/app/views" Now i really stuck in my app and i don't know how to get over with it. can

u plz plz help me. My git repository at: https://github.com/sarahgup...

(https://github.com/sarahgupta022/book.git)

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AKSHAY GUPTA11 Jul 15

Audio was also not getting automatically played. So download any notication sound on internet

and put it in public directory naming notify.mp3 and it will start working
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PVIJAYROR18 Jul 15

Hi Akshay Gupta, Please let me know can you describe to me automatically opening the chatwindow

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SANJEEV KUMAR MISHRA05 Jun 15

Hi Joseph, this is by far one of the most useful tutorials I have ever found in the recent past

thank you so much for this. BTW, I am also one of those who is looking for the following 2

things: #1. Open the chat window of the other person if he's online automatically: If I had

been in conversation with another user already and had just closed it for some reason, the

chat window does popup for me if that same user sends me another message. But nothing

happens if someone has just initiated a conversation. Would be great help to get this one in

I know a lot of people have already requested for it, so I hope you help us around this. Or

just gimme some idea/hint :) #2. Detecting if a user if online of ofine and based on that

showing some visual on the chat window / hide the send message button etc


PVIJAYROR10 Jun 15Hi Joseph, Thank you for update :) Plase x ASAP automatically opening the chat window

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ANIL SINGH23 Jun 15

Hi Joseph, Thanks for this nice tutorial, I am facing one issue with it. Started GET "/faye.js" fo

127.0.0.1 at 2015-06-23 15:27:12 +0530 ActionController::RoutingError (No route matche[GET] "/faye.js"): Could you please help to x this issue. Thanks in Advance :)


ANIL SINGH23 Jun 15

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AKSHAY GUPTA11 Jul 15

I have posted my solution on above thread...for opening the chat box automatically for anotheronline user

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MOUSSASARR20 Aug 15

Great tutorial. Now I am wondering if you can from here have a inbox, trash and sent that will

look like the one you made with mailboxer but using only private pub and thin. Can you go fro

here to an inbox system in coordination with the chat messages ? If so, how ?

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WEIJIE GAO27 Aug 15

hey! I wrote a short blog post on how to set up the private pub messenger for https/ssl. There wa

a mistake in the private pub read me for this issue. check it out! http://www.weijieworld.com/...

(http://www.weijieworld.com/how-to-setup-your-rails-private-pub-messenger-for-httpsssl/)


TEKI.V.SIVARAMAKRISHNA14 Sep 15

It took me two days to understand the process of faye push server and after following AKSHAY

GUPTA's reply .... now I can successfully alert the other user when someone initiates the

conversation. Pretty thanks to akshay and joseph ndungu.


AKSHAY GUPTA14 Sep 15

Thanks Teki.. good it was helpful...

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BRUNO SIQUEIRA27 Sep 15

Hey, Joseph! Thank you for the great tutorial! private_pub had been outdated for more tha

3 years. Do you know if there another gem option? Thanks?


XBITS23 Sep 15

Had a problem which took me a while to gure out. Faye channels were not being subscribed due to

GET parameters in the channel name EX: "/conversation/3?locale=pt". Faye would then send a

response with error 405 invalid channel. In case anyone has the same problem simply add ``ruby

your_channel_name.split('?').rst ``


SZILARD MAGYAR05 Oct 15

Hey! Awesome tut! I am pretty new to rails. Could sby tell me how I could embed the chat functio

into rails? So when I click on a user show page the chat is already there as part of the rails app,

without using any JS to open the chat window.


BANGOC12324 Oct 15

How can i display this chat at any page in my app? Please!!!


LMAHENDRA05 Oct 15

Hi Joseph, thanks for an awesome tutorial. I could make it work on my localhost successfully.

However, when I deployed it to my dev server running nginx on AWS having linux AMI, I had to

reload the page to see new messages. I added server IP in private_pub.yml and updated

nginx.conf with /faye url, also opened 9292 port from aws console. but not able to resolve the

following error Errno::ETIMEDOUT in Spree::Messages#create Showing

app/views/spree/messages/create.js.erb where line #1 raised: Connection timed out -

connect(2) for "54.xx.xx.171" port 9292

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LMAHENDRA05 Oct 15

adding //= require private_pub to application.js resolved my issue, god, how did I missed that?

Now I want to add API functionality to the chat for building android / ios application. If anyone

already did that, please guide me.


MAXMEIRA29 Oct 15

Excellent tutorial dear Joseph! Need to put the button "Send Message" on views users / prole

and so he opens the message box for that particular user, please guide me how to do this! Be

with a description or sample, is of paramount importance! Congratulations for the work, very

grateful!


ZELLIMBO29 Oct 15

Fantastic writing . I was fascinated by the info . Does anyone know if my company might be able

to obtain a blank 2012 CDC CDC/NCHS-6205-1 version to type on ?


LEONGG31 Oct 15

Hi Joseph, I got an error: Can't verify CSRF token authenticity

ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken - ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken: [...] Hav

you seen that error? do you know how can I x it? Many thanks!


RMATEJACABELLO28 Nov 15

For those who want to do an auto popup window when someone sends you a message, I

just realized there is a commit request in the Github brung from the user Mubashwer that

xes that. Check the les changes here and include it in your code:

https://github.com/Joseph-N... (https://github.com/Joseph-N/chatty/pull/4/les) Basically

this user created a channel right after loading your application that subscribes to a
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"notications" channel. This is also very helpful to know when the user is online or ofine

since that channel is being subscribed when you enter the app. You can take a look at this

discussion here from przbadu (https://github.com/ryanb/pr...

(https://github.com/ryanb/private_pub/issues/110)) where he uses app.bind(:subscribe)

and app.bind(:unsubscribe) events that re up when the user subscribes to a channel. You

can play with the code and detect every time an user subscribes to the notication channe

which would be the same as knowing when the user comes online or ofine. With this, I

think this chat is 100% operative and useful for any application. (Would be awesome to

have also the "Typing.." message)


AN01 Dec 15

Hello Joseph, I don't know if there was an update but at the moment I receive a 500 interna

error when I try to send a message, as well as in your Demo > http://railschattyapp.herok...

(http://railschattyapp.herokuapp.com/). Any tips? Thanxs .-)

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TOM CARIDI16 Dec 15

Hey Joseph, rst of all thanks for the super detailed tutorial! I implemented everything as you

have but when clicking on the Send Message button next to the users, nothing happens. My cod

is exactly the same as yours so I'm wondering if it's a Ruby or Rails version issue since you built

this a while ago. Any advice?


LMAHENDRA18 Dec 15

can you provide more details as in what's the error you are getting and RoR version?


PRAGATISIGMA28 Dec 15

Hi Joseph, Amazing tutorial. But for a receiver to receive alert i used "/conversations/#

{@conversati... (mailto:conversations/#{@conversation.id)}/new" and it is not working. Also,

want to popup remain open for all the pages even i refresh the page like facebook. Any help?

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SIREESH06 Jan 16

HI joseph this is tutorial thank you. please solve my issue when ever click on send a message

link at that time only the channel is subscribing .if user is not click on the button he is not go

any message.


STEPHANE CEDRONI07 Jan 16

Anybody tried to add an index action on the conversations? I am trying to display the list of

conversation like gmail. But can't nd a way to efciently fetch the interlocutors with a JOIN

(otherwise this is doing N+1 query). Anybody found a solution for that?


SEBASTIAN VELANDIA11 Jan 16

Great tutorial, now how to add le attachments to the messages?


SEBASTIAN VELANDIA11 Jan 16

By the way, the demo app is not working!!

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KHAVQ13 Jan 16

his is really nice tutorial, I was making it work on local (computer A) but when I using anothercomputer (computer B) to access 10.1.0.125:8520 so I got a problem. When I type on B so A still can

received the message but chat list on B is not update and when I type on A nothing happen. Any

ideas can help me ? Thanks for your time.

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KEVIN YEH04 Mar 16

Danthes is a better better gem to use as private_pub is no longer maintained. https://github.com/dotpromo...

(https://github.com/dotpromo/danthes)


HARSHAD2608 Apr 16

I setup it but just open chatbox. Not received message to another person. Also when i write

message and post but not show in chat window. Its show only after reload page. What i missed

here. Any one have a idea. Thanks


TYLERTAYLOR15 Feb 16

The message pop up is not working for me, it's pointing to '/#' and at this point I have cloned

and copied your code.


OHN OWUOR23 Feb 16

Mine works well, nally. \o/. But it only works in the index page of the app. I would like to have it

work from another resource e.g localhost:3000/proles/5/conversations/1 instead of

localhost:3000/conversations/1 . Any Idea how to go about this?


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HARSHAD2608 Apr 16

messages save into database but not show instant. Its show after reload window. Why? any one have.

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KINYODAN23 Apr 16

Please help i need to know which part of the code requires a user to be signed in in order to

display the pop up message box, since i need to change it i am rendering the message box on a

separate controller view i have already done this but i have multiple models for devise guest and

user i need the user authentication removed i have removed the authenticate user from the

message and conversations controllers already but the message box only displays if user is signe

in


KINYODAN23 Apr 16

oh managed to get it working


DSCLOUD30 Apr 16

An amazing tutorial Joseph. Thanks a lot!!! However, while trying to run...rails g

private_pub:install.... I encounter this error Could not nd generator 'private_pub:install'. Maybe

you meant 'devise:install', 'responders:install' or 'integration_test'. So i could not proceed,

obviously. Any assistance/guide on what to do will be highly appreciate.

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DSCLOUD30 Apr 16

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