Build a live comment application using Ruby and Pusher

A demo of a live comment application built with Ruby and Pusher.

Screenshot of the demo app.

Getting Started

Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/yemiwebby/live-comments-pusher.git

Change directory

$ cd live-comments-pusher

Install dependencies

$ bundle install

Setup database

$ rails db:setup $ rails db:migrate

Setup 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 and CoffeeScript

Built With

• Rails - Rails is a web application framework running on the Ruby programming language.

• Pusher - A Node.js client to interact with the Pusher REST API