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Installation Instructions.

• Install Twister ¹
• Install Orbited ²
  • If you will use an external stomp server, download the orbited.cfg
  • Don’t forget to edit config/orbited.yml which comes with the plugin
• Install stomp
  

   gem install stomp 

• Install the orbited plugin
  

   cd YOUR_APP && script/plugin install git://github.com/mallio/orbited 

Deployment Instructions

• Go to your app directory and start the server
  

   cd YOUR_APP && script/sever 

• Start up orbited
  

    orbited --config=config/orbited.cfg 

• If you chose to use an external stomp server, start the external stomp server

Source code

Controller

class MyController < ApplicationController
  def add_line
    data = render_to_string :update do |page|
      page["#chat"].append params[:entry] #Assuming you use JQuery
    end
    Orbited.send_data('hello', data)
  end
end

View

Assuming you use JQuery.
form_remote_tag #TODO replace with JQuery code

<%= orbited_javascript #TODO Shouldn't need to include prototype when using JQuery %> 
<%= stomp_connect('hello', :js => :jquery, :callbacks => {
		:onopen => "function() { alert('Opening stomp client'); }", 
		:onclose => "function(c) { alert('Lost Connection, Code: ' + c); }", 
		:onerror => "function(error){ alert('onError: ' + error); }", 
		:onmessageframe => "function(frame) { alert(frame.body); eval(frame.body); }",
		:onreceiptframe => "function(frame) { alert('onReceiptFrame: '+ frame) }",
		:onerrorframe => "function(error){ alert('onErrorFrame: ' + error); }",
		:onlinereceived => "function(line) {alert('onLineReceived: ' + line);}",
		:onrawdatareceived => "function(data) {alert('onRawDataReceived: ' + data);}"
	} ) 
	%>
< div id=“chat” style=“height:300px;border:1px solid black;overflow:scroll;”>< /div>

<%- form_remote_tag :url => {:controller => ‘participants’, :action => :add_line}, :method => :put do >

	<= text_field_tag ‘entry’ >

	<= submit_tag (‘Send’) >

< end	-%>

routes.rb

  map.resources :MyController, :collection => { :add_line => :put}

Resources:

¹ Twisted
fn2. Orbited Installation Instructions