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

I'd consider looking into Cramp. It's an async framework built on top of EventMachine, and it supports Thin server:

Rack Middlewares support + Rainbows! and Thin web servers