More Juggernaut Features (Server Push for Rails)

May 10th, 2007

Nicolas Cavigliano has been working hard on the next version of Juggernaut, some of his new features include:

• Connect/Disconnect triggers
• Unique Identification of clients capability (Can now use user_id instead of session_id for instance)
• Add/Remove a channel from a given client without reloading the swf
• Send to individual client without use of “channel” methodology

You can check out the latest updates in Juggernaut’s svn. Nick also hopes to get a screencast up soon as well.
He’ll be blogging about his progress on his newly created blog.

Also, this chap has been experimenting with comet and mongrel. The problem being that Comet can only connect to the same host (and port) the original request was from. However, I hear Alex Russell from dojo has cracked that with some sort of iframe hackery (but there are some caveats) . Anyways, I still retain the opinion that using a flash socket is the best method available at the moment (and frankly, the 2% of people who don’t have flash turned on probably don’t have JavaScript turned on either).

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