dhtmlxChat

A realtime DHTMLX chat application

online demo

http://www.dhtmlx.com.br

stack

• RabbitMQ
• Perl / Dancer / Twiggy
• dhtmlx 4.0 + a simple websocket client

install RabbitMQ

• A open source robust messaging system for applications

  http://www.rabbitmq.com

  http://www.rabbitmq.com/download.html

install Perl environment

• Dancer - a modern and agile Perl framework

  http://perldancer.org

• Twiggy - AnyEvent HTTP server for PSGI

  https://metacpan.org/pod/Twiggy

• Server::Starter - a superdaemon for hot-deploying server programs

  https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Server-Starter/start_server

Now on terminal:

- install perlbrew

curl -L http://xrl.us/perlbrewinstall | bash


- Add content to .bashrc

echo "source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc" >> ~/.bashrc


- run .bashrc

. ~/.bashrc


- install perl distro

perlbrew install perl-5.10.1


- Switch Perl version on terminal

perlbrew switch perl-5.10.1


- install cpan minus (cpanm executable)

curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus

install Perl modules

Now on terminal:

- cpanm Dancer
- cpanm Twiggy
- cpanm Web::Hippie
- cpanm Moose
- cpanm Server::Starter

Executing the chat application

extract the project at /opt/dhtmlxChat

Now on terminal:

- cd /opt/dhtmlxChat
- start_server --port=80 -- plackup -R /opt/dhtmlxChat/lib -E deployment -s Twiggy --workers=10 bin/app.pl

now open your browser and reach http://localhost/

important note

this application dont works on Windows OS (I'm sorry Bill)