Real-Time Activity with ActionCable and Rails 6 | Ruby on Rails Projects

In the last episode, we built out an entire ActionCable powered Rails 6 chat room application from scratch. This episode adds to that by adding real-time activity and status information. We'll be able to tell which users are online and lay the groundwork for adding further activity indicators.

Action Cable is an awesome tool that was introduced to Rails in version 5. It makes it a lot easier to set up web socket connections and push real-time events to connected users.

This video will help you get a good grip on how data flows through ActionCable, and it will help you develop your own apps in the future.

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Project on Github: https://github.com/StephenFiser/messenger-app/tree/feature/activity

Building a Messenger app with Rails 6 (full): https://youtu.be/s3CmHhDjuWc

Action Cable Basics in Rails 6: https://youtu.be/t9iubpbqmnM

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