Introducing the H2G Ajax Chat gem

require 'h2g_ajaxchat'


ac = AjaxChat.new(ChatCore.new)

req1 = DummyRequest.new
ac.req(req1).index
ac.req(req1).login_post 'Jim'
# logs in with username 'Jim'

req2 = DummyRequest.new
ac.req(req2).index
ac.req(req2).login_post 'Bob'
# logs in with username 'Bob'

ac.req(req1).chatter
s  = ac.req(req1).chatter('hello')


puts ac.req(req2).chatter
ac.req(req2).chatter 'anybody here?'
puts ac.req(req1).chatter

The above example can copied pasted into an IRB session to observe the chat conversation between 2 users. The DummyRequest object is a RACK session object substitute and is used to store the username and the identifier of the last message read.

Here we can see user Jim logs in, and then user Bob logs in. Then Jim says hello, and Bob replies with the message anybody here?

The method *chatter() is used to both display messages and send messages.

Resources

• h2g_ajaxchat https://rubygems.org/gems/h2g_ajaxchat

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