Ruby Framework For Bidirectional Communication with a Web Server

Author: Damir Svrtan





Mentor: Prof. Sinisa Srbljic


SECTIONS:


1. History of Real Time Web Communication
2. Real Time Ruby
3. The Rack Interface
4. Building a Ruby Web Framework
5. The Future


History of Real Time Web Communication



AJAX &

POLLING TECHNIQUES


SHORT POLLING



LONG POLLING


HTML 5


SERVER SENT EVENTS &

WEBSOCKETS


SERVER SENT EVENTS(SSE)


WEBSOCKETS


WHY USE SSE OVER WEBSOCKETS?


  • data only needs to be streamed to the client
  • using plain HTTP, don't need a special protocol
  • automatic reconnection



REAL TIME RUBY



EVENTMACHINE

Ruby library for building asynchronous, event driven applications


EVENTMACHINE LOOP




FAYE

  • publish-subscribe messaging system
  • client and server side libraries in Ruby and Node.js
  • usage:
    • standalone server application
    • integrated middleware


Ruby on RAILS


  • Out of box SSE via ActionController::Live
  • WebSockets via WebSocket-Rails


SINATRA

  • built in streaming option

  • sinatra-websocket gem


GOLIATH


  • built by Ilya Grigorik
  • bare-metal asynchronous web server framework
  • used for high traffic API's
  • not a replacement for Rails or Sinatra


CRAMP


  • asynchronous real-time web application framework
  • supported on Thin and Rainbows servers
  • asynchronous crossover between Rails and Sinatra



THE RACK INTERFACE

HELLO WORLD WITH RACK


run MyApp.new

require 'rack'

class MyApp
def call(env)
[200, {'Content-Type' => 'text/html'}, ['Hello World']]
end
end

RACK REQUEST HASH



Noodles

An experimental Real Time MVC Ruby Web Framework



EXTERNAL ARCHITECTURE



OUT OF BOX WEBSOCKET AND 

HTTP PROTOCOL SUPPORT

INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE

FOLDER STRUCTURE



HTTP ROUTING



HTTP CONTROLLERS



WEBSOCKET HANDLERS



NOODLES WIKI AND SOURCE CODE:

https://github.com/DamirSvrtan/noodles


SAMPLE APPLICATION SOURCE CODE:

https://github.com/DamirSvrtan/noodle-app

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