Build a live chat widget with Ruby and Pusher Channels

A tutorial to showcase realtime functionality of Pusher Channels in Ruby

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Getting Started

Clone The Repository

$ git clone https://github.com/9jaswag/pusher-chat-widget.git

Change directory

$ cd pusher-widget

Install dependencies

$ bundle install

Setup up database

$ rails db:setup $ rails db:migrate

Setup up Figaro and Env variables

• Run $ figaro install to automatically generate application.yml file.
• Open config/application.yml and replace the content (if any) with the following:

PUSHER_APP_ID: 'your Pusher app ID'
PUSHER_KEY: 'your pusher kep'
PUSHER_SECRET: 'your pusher secret'
PUSHER_CLUSTER: 'your pusher cluster'

Prerequisites

A basic knowledge of Ruby, PostgreSQL and CoffeeScript

Built With

• Pusher - A Ruby gem to interact with the Pusher REST API