A small cozy web chat app, like paper cups and a string back in the days. Usually surrounded by lots of French chatter…
Is it a replacement for some of the hosted solutions? No, it’s meant as a minimalistic application that can be hosted on your own server when that’s absolutely necessary.
The vendored Rails is a git submodule, get it with:
$ git submodule update --init
Then:
$ rake db:create:all $ rake db:migrate
Add some development data:
$ rake db:fixtures:load
And it’s ready to be served.
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If you want to bookmark the application’s URL in Safari, be sure to bookmark
/session/new, not a room URL. This is because Safari will maintain the name given to the bookmark as the tab’s title even when it’s updated with new messages count.
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hate it hate it hate it (anonymous smurf)