Group Chat with ActionCable: Part 7 Discussion
Hi! response for the new user
undefined method `last_read_at' for nil:NilClass for Chatrooms#show
how to solve?
Hey Nikola, looks like you don't have a @chatroom_user record set. That was one of the things we discovered was missing, so you'll want to make sure that your user's got that record when they join. We made a couple tweaks to this to fix a couple bugs on Github, so you might want to check those out: https://github.com/gorails-...
Hey Chris,
I couldn't find good resources on how to test actioncable with rspec + capybara. Don't you know some great articles/repos I could check out?
Unfortunately a lot of it is still up in the air directly from Rails. https://github.com/rails/ra... Hoping to see this start being more available soon.
Does anyone have an update on the rspec / actioncable issue? We are slowly starting to implement rspec into our workflow as our app gets bigger.
W. Ama
Hi,
I implemented the unread messages feature, however, when messages are sent in the chatroom and a user has not joined the room prior to that, it sends this error once the join button is clicked.
By joining the chatroom, I mean clicking the join button, which then adds the room to the list of joined rooms of the user before he enters the room.
This is in the rooms/views/show.html.erb https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
Thank you!
Hi Chris,
When showing the list of chatrooms (chatrooms#index), I would like to display the usernames of the users in that room along with the name of the room.
Do you think this would be a good use case for a array/jsonb column type in the chatrooms, in order to store information about the users subscribed to that chatroom?
That would avoid extra table joins on the users table, but would have the downside of needing to update the chatrooms when a user updates his username.
The alternative would be to go with a regular table join on the users table when fetching the chatrooms.
Thanks for your feedback on this.
Hey Stephane, I would do a join table for this because as things get more complex you'll want to probably support extra features like different roles for users in the room (like Slack allows you to invite guests to specific rooms) and the best way to do that would be with the join table. They're still fast to query and can store all the additional data you might want on it.
Hi Stephene,
If I understand, your chat room displays the names of the users who are currently in that chatroom chatting? Did you figure out how to get it working?
-Monroe
Nguyen Huy Anh
Hi Chris,
I just finished episode 7 of Group Chat with ActionCable. When I send a message, the "unread messages" div appears in the browser window of the sender as well as the recipient's window. Any ideas why it's appearing in the message sender's window?
barrooms/show
<% unread_messages = false %>
<div data-behavior="messages" data-barroom-id="<%= @barroom.id %>">
<% @messages.each do |message| %>
<% if !unread_messages && @barroom_user.last_read_at < message.created_at %>
<% unread_messages = true %>
<div class="strike">
Unread Messages
</div>
<% end %>
<%= render message %>
<% end %>
</div>
barrooms_controller
def show
@messages = @barroom.messages.order(created_at: :desc).limit(100).reverse
@barroom_user = current_user.barroom_users.find_by(barroom_id: @barroom.id)
end
channels/barrooms.coffee
App.barrooms = App.cable.subscriptions.create "BarroomsChannel",
connected: ->
# Called when the subscription is ready for use on the server
disconnected: ->
# Called when the subscription has been terminated by the server
received: (data) ->
active_barroom = $("[data-behavior='messages'][data-barroom-id='#{data.barroom_id}']")
if active_barroom.length > 0
if document.hidden
if $(".strike").length == 0
active_barroom.append("<div class="strike">Unread Meassages</div>")
if Notification.permission == "granted"
new Notification(data.username, {body: data.body})
else
App.last_read.update(data.barroom_id)
active_barroom.append("<div>#{data.username}: #{data.body}</div>")
else
$("[data-behavior='barroom-link'][data-barroom-id='#{data.barroom_id}']").css("font-weight", "bold")
send_message: (barroom_id, message) ->
@perform "send_message", {barroom_id: barroom_id, body: message}
Rex,
Are you still seeking an answer to this? If so, let me know, and I'll see if we can help you. We just got our chatroom working properly.
-Monroe
Great series. The best on ActionCable I've seen so far and I've been trying to learn it for a couple of weeks.
Jillis Stada
Hi,
I have appended a chatroom to the chatroom list.
on recieved: (data) I managed to subscibe to all channels again in Users.coffee with
received: (data) ->
chatroom_list = $("[data-behavior='chatrooms']")
# Insert the chateroom
chatroom_list.append("< li>< a data-behavior='chatroom-link' data-chatroom-id='#{data.chatroom_id}' href='\/chartrooms\/#{data.chatroom_id}'>< strong<#{data.chatroom_name}< /a>< /li>")
App.cable.subscriptions.create "ChatroomsChannel"
How do I subscribe only to the the recieved chatroom?
App.cable.subscriptions.create {channel:"ChatroomsChannel", room: "#{data_chatroom_id}"}
Hi Chris!
We got it working perfectly! Thanks so much! Can't wait to show you what we're putting together in a few months when we launch :D
One question: when a chatroom switches to bold, it indicates new unread messages. When I click on that chatroom, it loads the chatroom, but then it takes about 3 - 5 seconds before the new messages themselves load.
Do you have any suggestions on how to remove that load delay?
Thanks!
-Monroe
This serie is a masterpiece - learned much. As i am using Rails 6 i was struggling several times - and gave up for a while. There are big changes between Rails 5 and 6 and also ActionCable was getting improved. Some updates here after almost 4 years since creation would be very very helpful for all the Members who are starting a new Apps - they will do it for sure with Rails 6. Thanks in advance for any helps.
I've tried to use if else statement, and display a delete link next to the message, when I submit a message, the delete link won't display, and I have to refresh the page. It seems like if else statement doesn't work in actioncable.
