#Gossip Chat

"Gossip Chat is a bad-ass chat application, where you can find the hottest gossips around you. It was developed by some amazing and super talented guys at EAFIT University."

#Reto 4

Diseño e implementación de un Chat con múltiples salas. Un usuario puede enviar mensajes a todos los miembros de una sala (por defecto) o a un usuario en particular en línea en el sistema. Se debe enviar mensajes sencillos de texto de máximo 160 caracteres (tipo twitter o SMS).

By:

• Esteban Arango Medina
• Daniel Duque Tirado
• Sebastian Duque Jaramillo

##Description

This is simple web chat application which we wanted to made as nice as we could. The basic idea behind scenes is a real-time ( publish and subscribe) application where you will be able to use from a web browser as well as from a desktop program.

##Requirements This app was entirely made using Ruby (1.9.>) and Ruby on Rails, so you must have installed Ruby and Rails in your machine. Please go to these sites, there you'll find a nice guides to install both.

RVM Ruby Version Manager

Rails Guides

We recommend to run it on Linux or Mac OS. Rails run extremely slow on Windows (Actually we should say that Windows runs Rails extremely slow:P).

##Setup

The app needs to run two servers. First, make sure you run $ bundle install to install all the dependencies. Then, setup the database running $ rake db:create $ rake db:migrate and fill it up running $ rake db:seed.

Now you'll be able to run $ rails s, to start the rails server, and now you can start up that Rack server by running $ rackup private_pub.ru -s thin -E production.

#####Linux Note. If you're on Linux, there is a problem with the ports when you start up the Rack server, so you'll have to change the private_pub.yml file. on:

development:
  server: "http://localhost:9292/faye"
  secret_token: "secret"

Change the port 9292 to 8000 (or whatever you want.), and then start up the Rack server with $ rackup private_pub.ru -s thin -p 8000 -E production. (You'll also need to restar the Rails sever in order to get the changes made on private_pub.yml)

####Web Now you can go to http://localhost:3000 and enjoy it :).

####Desktop Being on the Gossip Thick folder ($ cd Gossip\ Thick/), run $ ruby GossipServer.rb and you can enjoy it too from you favorite console :).

##Resources

• Private Pub
  • For all the real-time interactions.
• CanCan
  • Admin permissions and users abilities
• Bootstrap, from Twitter with Twitter Bootstrap for Rails
  • Site style, and responsive design

##References

RailsCasts was really helpful, thanks Ryan :P.

Room chat design taken from Liam Kaufman