From: Robert McCorkle Date: 2006-11-06T03:00:41+09:00 Subject: Re: chats? sorry hit the send button before i was done replying... i want a chat that probly will be reinventing the wheel- though of course I'd love to grab code similar to lingr or moreso campfire but I don't see that type of project in works by anyone else, looks like they gave up and said use lingr or campfire for their purposes. I'm a part of 6 other developers that are developing an all encompassed app to surpass what current bible resources on the web currently offer- my portion that pulled me into the group was my bible study online. Currently I use lace but the ajax is too slow and requires too much server talk and it goes into overflow- whereas all the ruby implementations i've seen are incredible and allow for scalability of larger groups of people! (more than 7 unlike lace that starts getting clunky). The chat is very important and i'd like to integrate it so that its both a group chat and offers IM capabilities in ruby. Sure it'd be great if i could offer the ability to connect through existing chat plugins such as jabber/irc/google/etc. But baby steps- I just need an initial chat to start off with that is similar to campfire/lingr as that's my approach that I'm wanting to take and add customization after that. Any help is appreciated. Let go, and let GOD! Robert On Sunday November 5,2006, at November 5, 9:48AM, David Vallner wrote: > Robert McCorkle wrote: >> I'm curious - as a newby- where to find existing code snippets that I >> can use for chat amongst other things. I saw that there are >> repositories but haven't had much luck. Any recommendations? >> >> Robert >> > > 1. You seem to have written this as a reply to a thread with another > topic. Try to avoid this, hijacking threads is confusing, and they > tend > get derailed horribly over time by themselves already. > > 2. Depends on what kind of chat you want. The path of least effort > would > be running a Jabber or IRC server and using the respective Ruby > bindings. The path of even less effort would be just using existing > Jabber servers -and- clients, of course. Depends on your purpose, > if you > want to actually run a chat for some other purpose, or want to > reinvent > the wheel for some reason (doing it better, etc.) > > David Vallner >