ActionCable

ActionCable provides real-time websocket support in your Rails app. Websockets are a persistent connection to the server where data can be sent and received in real-time.

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25m

5 Lessons | 1h 14m | Intermediate

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Realtime Notifications with ActionCable

Jun 28, 2016 Pro

Learn how to implement realtime notifications with ActionCable

How ActionCable Uses Redis

Jul 04, 2016 Pro

Check out some behind the scenes of ActionCable to understand how and why it uses Redis

Disabling ActionCable for Unauthenticated Users

Jul 11, 2016

To only have ActionCable's JS connect for logged in users, we can setup our Javascript to know when a user is authenticated or not, and have our websocket try to connect accordingly.