README.md

Web Sockets playground

Experiments and demos with event machine, web_sockets and event-based JavaScript. Feel free to fork and improve on the examples.

Setup

1. Download this repo to a directory

2. From the directory:

    bundle install
   

3. Install redis if you want to play with pub/sub

    brew install redis
   

4. Start the server (ensure redis is running):

    bundle exec ruby server.rb
   

5. View the client page in a browser localhost:4000

6. To publish commands to the redis channel, do something like:

    redis-cli
    > publish 'chat' 'This is a test message from redis command line client'