Introduction to ActionCable
Explore how to set up and use ActionCable to enable real-time, bidirectional communication between client and server in Rails applications. Understand the benefits over polling, integration with Turbo Streams, Stimulus, and React, and how ActionCable configurations work in development and production.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Background
In the last chapter, we learned how to communicate with the server using regular HTTP requests and receiving either HTML or JSON in response. One feature of our server interactions in both ...