Juggernaut test

Posted: 15 months ago (2009-04-24 16:10:12 UTC )

Juggernaut is a push server and related extension for Rails. It works with jQuery and Prototype, and could probably be adapted for other Ruby frameworks with a bit of work.

I set up the basic chat tests the other day. So, a couple of gotchas that I'll share about that:

First, make sure you use the github version, not the Rubyforge version. The older code in SVN on RubyForge uses some older deprecated Rails functions. The common READMEs are often wrong on that, though Alex McCaw (the author) said he'd go update those :-)

Make sure you read the whole README. After you set it up as a test app, it will only work if your web browser is on the same machine as the server you're running -- there's some additional information, later in the README, about how to set up permission to let non-local users see your Juggernaut server properly.