Juggernaut is a rails plugin that implements server push to clients through a xmlsocket, allowing thinks like real-time chat and collaboration.
Flex version - http://www.eribium.org/blog/?p=154
Air version - http://www.eribium.org/blog/?p=134
- Support for ports lower than 1024, such as 443
- Now specify width, height and address of swf.
- Add/remove channels
- Toggle base64 for messages (useful when having serialization issues)
- Console log to firebug
- Updated documentation
- Send messages to a particular user
- Auth requests (and fixed security issues, channels and unique id are
now sent too for checking)
- Log-off notification
- Automatically updates to required flash version (express install).
- Updated flash to 8, now uses External interface (no know more
fscommand and vbscript hackery)
- More helper options for escaping html etc
- Few more things I’ve forgotten ;)
- Oh, and an updated website http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org