Ex Pusher Lite - Part 1: Phoenix Channels and Rails apps

Finally, after a lengthy exercising period (and plenty of blogging!) I will start implementing the Elixir app I wanted from the very beginning. As a Rails developer there are a few things we can't do in Rails. One of them is to deal with real-time messaging. Rails 5 will bring Action Cable, and it might be good enough for most cases. It uses Faye, which in turn is based on Eventmachine. You can implement a good enough solution for Websockets using Faye in your Rails 4.2 app right now. Another op...

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