A simple Group Chat application written during the April 28th Toronto Ruby Hack Night.

The goal was to create a real time web application using Rails and Faye.

Feel free to browse the source and commit history to get a feel for how it works so you can use it in your own app.

We all learnt a lot by developing this app and it was a very successful Hack Night!

Execute this line from the app’s root directory to run Faye:

rackup faye.ru -s thin -E production

In order to run on anything but localhost, change the IP on line 10 at public/javascripts/application.js and line 6 at app/views/layouts/application.html.erb.

Click on the “Sign in with Twitter” link to set your Username to your Twitter Username. You can also enter your Username in the Text Field if you haven’t signed in with Twitter.

Pressing the “Up” and “Down” arrow keys on the keyboard when the Message Text Box is in focus will traverse through your history of sent messages (like your Terminal).

• Tasveer Singh (@tazsingh)

• Dann Toliver (@dann)

• Aaron McLeod (@agmcleod)

• Alex Chesser (@fstrnet)

• Nick Hoffman (@nphoffman)

Feel free to extend this app and send me pull requests!