How do you spawn an EventMachine “inside” a Rails app?

Question

I\'ve got a Rails application, and am looking to add some sort of WebSocket support to it. From various googling, it appears that the best Ruby based WebSocket solution is

Answer 1

Don't know if this is what you are after. But if you would like to do provide some kind of socket-messaging system.

Have a look at Faye. It provides message servers for Node.js and Rack. There is also a rails cast for this by Ryan Bates which should simplify the implementation.

Hope that helps.