EM-WebSocket

EventMachine based, async WebSocket server. Take a look at examples directory, or check out the blog post below:

• www.igvita.com/2009/12/22/ruby-websockets-tcp-for-the-browser/

Simple server example

EventMachine.run {

  EventMachine::WebSocket.start(:host => "0.0.0.0", :port => 8080) do |ws|
      ws.onopen {
        puts "WebSocket connection open"

        # publish message to the client
        ws.send "Hello Client"
      }

      ws.onclose { puts "Connection closed" }
      ws.onmessage { |msg|
        puts "Recieved message: #{msg}"
        ws.send "Pong: #{msg}"
      }
  end
}

Secure server

It is possible to accept secure wss:// connections by passing :secure => true when opening the connection. Safari 5 does not currently support prompting on untrusted SSL certificates therefore using signed certificates is highly recommended. Pass a :tls_options hash containing keys as described in eventmachine.rubyforge.org/EventMachine/Connection.html#M000296

For example,

EventMachine::WebSocket.start({
  :host => "0.0.0.0",
  :port => 443
  :secure => true,
  :tls_options => {
    :private_key_file => "/private/key",
    :cert_chain_file => "/ssl/certificate"
  }
}) do |ws|
  ...
end

Examples

• examples/multicast.rb - broadcast all ruby tweets to all subscribers

• examples/echo.rb - server <> client exchange via a websocket

• github.com/rubenfonseca/twitter-amqp-websocket-example

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 Ilya Grigorik

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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