Rails Notification Without Page Refresh

Question

I created a simple private messaging app through rails, but I am trying to get it to simply show that new message has arrived without the person having to refresh the page.

I am looking at State Machine because I am thinking that it might be a part of building something like this. Can anyone push me in the right direction?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The simplest way to do that using javascript is to periodically send requests to the server using setTimeout + $.get() .

Another a little bit more complicated way is to use gems like faye . There is nice railscast on this theme.

Answer 2

Take a look at any of the messaging protocols like:

Faye

Socket.IO

or hosted sollutions like PubNub or Pusher